{"product_id":"notes-of-a-racial-caste-baby-9780814726518","title":"Notes of a Racial Caste Baby","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Constitution of the United States, writes Bryan Fair, was a series of compromises between white male propertyholders: Southern planters and Northern merchants. At the heart of their deals was a clear race-conscious intent to place the interests of whites above those of blacks.\u003cbr\u003e In this provocative and important book, Fair, the eighth of ten children born to a single mother on public assistance in an Ohio ghetto, combines two histories--America's and his own- -to offer a compelling defense of affirmative action. How can it be, Fair asks, that, after hundreds of years of racial apartheid during which whites were granted 100% quotas to almost all professions, we have now convinced ourselves that, after a few decades of remedial affirmative action, the playing field is now level? Centuries of racial caste, he argues, cannot be swept aside in a few short years.\u003cbr\u003e Fair ambitiously surveys the most common arguments for and against affirmative action. He argues that we must distinguish between America in the pre-Civil Rights Movement era--when the law of the land was explicitly anti-black--and today's affirmative action policies--which are decidedly not anti- white.  He concludes that the only just and effective way in which to account for America's racial past and to negotiate current racial quagmires is to embrace a remedial affirmative action that relies neither on quotas nor fiery rhetoric, but one which takes race into account alongside other pertinent factors.\u003cbr\u003e Championing the model of diversity on which the United States was purportedly founded, Fair serves up a personal and persuasive account of why race-conscious policies are the most effective way to end de facto segregation and eliminate racial caste.\u003cbr\u003e Table of Contents\u003cbr\u003e         A Note to the Reader   \u003cbr\u003e        Acknowledgments     \u003cbr\u003e    Preface: Telling Stories     \u003cbr\u003e      Recasting Remedies as Diseases   \u003cbr\u003e       Color-Blind Justice    \u003cbr\u003e       The Design of This Book   \u003cbr\u003e       Pt. 1. A Personal Narrative   \u003cbr\u003e         Not White Enough    \u003cbr\u003e         Dee     \u003cbr\u003e        Black Columbus    \u003cbr\u003e        Racial Poverty    \u003cbr\u003e         Man-Child   \u003cbr\u003e          Colored Matters     \u003cbr\u003e       Coded Schools    \u003cbr\u003e         Busing   \u003cbr\u003e          Going Home    \u003cbr\u003e         Equal Opportunity  \u003cbr\u003e           The Character of Color    \u003cbr\u003e        Diversity as One Factor       \u003cbr\u003e      The Deception of Color Blindness     \u003cbr\u003e      Pt. 2. White Privilege and Black Despair: The Origins of Racial Caste in America     \u003cbr\u003e       The Declaration of Inferiority     \u003cbr\u003e      Marginal Americans    \u003cbr\u003e       Inventing American Slavery      \u003cbr\u003e     The Road to Constitutional Caste      \u003cbr\u003e       Losing Second-Class Citizenship      \u003cbr\u003e       Reconstruction and Sacrifice   \u003cbr\u003e        Separate and Unequal    \u003cbr\u003e         The Color Line   \u003cbr\u003e        Critiquing Color Blindness    \u003cbr\u003e     Pt. 3. The Constitutionality of Remedial Affirmative Action \u003cbr\u003e       The Origins of Remedial Affirmative Action       \u003cbr\u003e      The Court of Last Resort    \u003cbr\u003e         The Invention of Reverse Discrimination   \u003cbr\u003e          The Politics of Affirmative Action: Myth or Reality?     \u003cbr\u003e        Racial Realism  \u003cbr\u003e          Eliminating Caste\u003cbr\u003e           Afterword       \u003cbr\u003e    Notes      \u003cbr\u003e     Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bryan K. Fair","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48274479579387,"sku":"9780814726518","price":107.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_bcc9b9ee-c761-4507-a2d3-d96af74a23cc.jpg?v=1771245215","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/notes-of-a-racial-caste-baby-9780814726518","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}