For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law

For Discrimination is at once the definitive reckoning with one of America’s most explosively contentious and divisive issues and a principled work of advocacy for clearly defined justice.
 
What precisely is affirmative action, and why is it fiercely championed by some and just as fiercely denounced by others? Does it signify a boon or a stigma? Or is it simply reverse discrimination? What are its benefits and costs to American society? What are the exact indicia determining who should or should not be accorded affirmative action? When should affirmative action end, if it must? Randall Kennedy gives us a concise and deeply personal overview of the policy, refusing to shy away from the myriad complexities of an issue that continues to bedevil American race relations.

• The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America
• Are You Smart Enough?: How Colleges' Obsession with Smartness Shortchanges Students
• Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It
• Boyhood to Manhood: Deconstructing Black Masculinity through a Life Span Continuum (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
• Diversity and Inclusion on Campus (Core Concepts in Higher Education)
• Chokehold: Policing Black Men
• The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture, and Justice in America (Morality and Society)
• The Price of Admission (Updated Edition): How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
• Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word