Brookings: Topics - Affirmative Action

Reflections on a Historic First

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Senator Obama’s nomination is one for the history books, marking a key moment for African Americans and the country. Hugh Price reflects on the nomination, race relations, and the symbolism of a spectacle that evoked pride, awe and astonishment. The New Millenium, he says, has finally arrived.

The Obama Victory: Giving Affirmative Action Its Due

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Hugh B. Price argues that the growing acceptance of diversity that fueled Senator Obama's victory was due to affirmative action, which unquestionably has made our robustly diverse nation a more perfect union.

Diversity Goals Help Kids in School -- and Later in Life

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Opinion by Hugh B. Price, The Press-Enterprise (2/16/07)

Black Americans Reduce the Racial IQ Gap: Evidence from Standardization Samples

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Article by William T. Dickens and James R. Flynn, Psychological Science (October 2006)

Changing Faces: Immigrants and Diversity in the Twenty-First Century

Sun, 01 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMT

In this chapter of a new Brookings book, Audrey Singer and James Lindsay discuss the rapid growth of America's Latino and Asian communities due to immigration and how the national narrative on diversity will no longer be only about whites and blacks.

Beyond Sushiology: Does Diversity Work?

Sun, 01 Dec 2002 00:00:00 GMT

Brookings Review article by Peter Skerry (Winter 2002)

Affirmative Action: Don't Mend It or End It - Bend It

Sun, 01 Dec 2002 00:00:00 GMT

Brookings Review article by Peter H. Schuck (Winter 2002)

Affirmative Action as an International Human Rights Dialogue: Considered Opinion

Fri, 01 Dec 2000 00:00:00 GMT

Brookings Review article by Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Winter 2000)

Ending Welfare as We Know It

Thu, 10 Aug 2000 00:00:00 GMT

Weaver provides a definitive political history of the 1996 welfare reform lesgislation. He addresses three sets of questions about the politics of welfare reform: the dismal history of comprehensive AFDC reform initiatives; the dramatic changes in th

Counting on the Census? : Race, Group Identity, and the Evasion of Politics

Thu, 13 Apr 2000 00:00:00 GMT

In Counting on the Census? Peter Skerry confirms the persistence of minority undercounts and insists that racial and ethnic data are critical to the administration of policies affecting minorities.

A New Civil Rights Agenda: A New Leadership Is Making a Difference

Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT

Brookings Review article by Joyce Ladner (Spring 2000)

Minority Groups in the Economics Profession

Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT

Paper by Susan M. Collins (Spring 2000)

Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 2000

Thu, 27 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT

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Edited by Diane Ravitch, one of the nation's foremost education authorities, B

The African-American Predicament

Fri, 08 Oct 1999 00:00:00 GMT

This book examines the vexing reality of racial conditions in America today: improved overall, but far more complicated than they used to seem, and in important respects continually depressing.

Race in America: New Approaches to Bridging the Divide

Fri, 07 May 1999 09:00:00 GMT
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May 07, 1999 at 9:00 AM

Urban Problems and Community Development

Tue, 02 Mar 1999 00:00:00 GMT

This book surveys what we currently know and what we need to know about community development's past, current, and potential contributions. The book addresses the history of urban development startegies, the politics of resource allocation, business

Whatever Happened to Integration?

Thu, 12 Nov 1998 09:30:00 GMT
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November 12, 1998, 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM

Affirmative Action Under Fire

Mon, 04 May 1998 10:00:00 GMT
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May 04, 1998, 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Black Progress: How far we've come, and how far we have to go

Sun, 01 Mar 1998 00:00:00 GMT
Brookings Review article by Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom (Spring 1998)

American Racial and Ethnic Politics in the 21st Century: A cautious look ahead

Sun, 01 Mar 1998 00:00:00 GMT
Brookings Review article by Jennifer L. Hochschild (Spring 1998)

An American Tragedy: The legacy of slavery lingers in our cities' ghettos

Sun, 01 Mar 1998 00:00:00 GMT
Brookings Review article by Glenn C. Loury (Spring 1998)

Affirmative Action: Opening up workplace networks to Afro-Americans

Sun, 01 Mar 1998 00:00:00 GMT
Brookings Review article by Orlando Patterson (Spring 1998)

Black America: The Road to Racial Uplift

Sun, 01 Mar 1998 00:00:00 GMT
Brookings Review article by Christopher H. Foreman, Jr. (Spring 1998)

The Two Nations of Black America: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times

Sun, 01 Mar 1998 00:00:00 GMT
Brookings Review article by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Spring 1998)

Black America: Progress and Prospects In Brief

Sun, 01 Mar 1998 00:00:00 GMT
Brookings Review article by James Johnson (Spring 1998)