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Article: Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil.
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- The Washington Monthly
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- May 1, 1998
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By Anthony W. Marx Cambridge University Press, $29.95
In recent years, California's system of voter initiatives -- originally designed by progressive reformers as a way to circumvent lobby-dominated legislatures -- has unexpectedly become a surrogate for national debates about taxes, immigration, and race. In The Color Bind, Lydia Chavez, a professor of journalism at UC Berkeley, has provided a fascinating and objective account of Proposition 209, the California Civil Rights Initiative. Passed in 1996, Prop 209 echoes the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in attempting to outlaw discrimination or the granting of preferences by the State of California on the basis of "race, ...