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Black and Tan Fantasy.("Collision Course: The Strange Convergence of Affirmative Action and Immigration Policy in America")
Collision Course: The Strange Convergence of Affirmative Action and Immigration Policy in America, by Hugh Davis Graham (Oxford, 256 pp., $30)
In June 1965, President Johnson gave a speech at Howard University that laid the theoretical groundwork for the transformation of civil rights into affirmative action: "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, 'You're free to compete with all the others,' and justly believe that you have been completely fair."
A few years later, President Nixon turned the theory of minority preference into reality through the ...
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