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Article: Skrentny, John David, ed. Color Lines: Affirmative Action, Immigration, and Civil Rights Options for America.
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- Perspectives on Political Science
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- March 22, 2002
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Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 363pp., $48.00 cloth, $18.00 paper ISBN 0-226-76181-9 cloth ISBN 0-226-76182-7 paper Publication Date: August 2001
John David Skrentny, associate professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego and author of The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture, and Justice in America (1996) argues that a "fresh analysis" of affirmative action is required (1). His purpose in Color Lines "is to reexamine the issues of discrimination, civil rights, and affirmative action for American racial and ethnic groups in light of the new immigration and international developments" (2). Skrentny's volume brings ...