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Affirmative Action, Jobs, and American Democracy: What Has Happened to the Quest for Equal Opportunity?

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Belz Herman, Equality Transformed: A Quarter-Century of Affirmative Action. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1991. 320 pages. $32.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.
Nieli Russell, ed., Racial Preference and Racial Justice: The New Affirmative Action Controversy. Washington, DC: Ethics & Public Policy Center, 1991. xii+532 pages. $25.95.

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Paul Burstein
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Law & Society Review , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , 1992 , pp. 901 - 922
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Copyright © 1992 by The Law and Society Association

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Statutes Cited

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