Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Race preferences and race privileges
  • Of fish and water : perspectives on racism and privilege
  • Bankruptcy of virtuous markets : racial inequality, poverty, and "individual failure"
  • Keeping Blacks in their place : race, education, and testing
  • Been in the pen so long : race, crime, and justice
  • Civil rights and racial equality : employment discrimination law, affirmative action, and quotas
  • Color-blindness as color consciousness : voting rights and political equality
  • Conclusion: Facing up to race.