Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Foreword Chapter 3 The New Threat to Diversity Chapter 4 The Historical Background of the Battle Against Affirmative Action Chapter 5 The Political Battle: Ballot Initiatives, Media Outreach, and Legislative Action Chapter 6 The Legal Battle: Strategic Litigation and Networking Chapter 7 The Assault on Diversity and the Coming to Power of the George W. Bush Administration
Lee Cokorinos, research director at the Institute for Democracy Studies in New York, has been conducting research on political movements in the United States and Africa for over two decades.
The right-wing research centers and law firms' well-coordinated
efforts are meticulously documented in Lee Cokorinos's The Assault
on Diversity. . . . The Assault on Diversity situates all the
present-day right-wing power centers in a diagram that in its
intricacy looks like the plans for a complex engeneering
project.
*The Nation*
Mr. Cokorinos characterizes the various challenges to colleges'
affirmative action programs as 'a project of the major foundations
of the political right' carried out by a well-funded nationally
based network.
*The Chronicle of Higher Education*
The Assault on Diversity documents in exceptional detail this
nationwide effort to roll back a proud half-century of progresss
toward social justice and a more inclusive society.
*The New York Times*
The Assault on Diversity reinforces with critical data the
challenges we confront as our hard-fought civil rights victories
come under attack in our nation's courtrooms, legislatures, state
houses, and universities. This book puts on notice all of us who
are committed to social justice in America. Unless we as a nation
respond firmly to this challenge, we will witness the foreclosure
of justice and equality for millions of Americans.
*Barbara R. Arnwine, executive director, Lawyers Committee for
Civil Rights Under Law*
An invaluable resource for uncovering the institutions, people and
money behind the attack on affirmative action.
*Socialist Worker*
This book makes clear that the opposition to affirmative action has
not been a spontaneous, rational response to America's most serious
domestic problem, but rather a well-orchestrated, abundantly funded
ideological campaign. The Assault on Diversity is a must-read for
anyone concerned about the future of civil rights in America, and
indeed the very nature of American democracy itself.
*Jack Greenberg, former director-counsel, NAACP; founding member
MALDEF; argued Brown v. Board of Education*
Lee Cokorinos of the Institute for Democracy Studies has done an
extremely thorough job of documenting the 'organized challenge to
racial and gender justice.'
*Diverse: Issues In Higher Education*
Contains detailed profiles of the network of conservative
foundations, think tanks, legal advocacy groups, and coordinating
structures, which the author believes are currently working
together to undermine the historic gains of the civil rights
movement.
*Hispanic Outlook*
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