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Further reading on the Michigan cases:

Below are newspaper articles, journal articles, and web links for futher reading on the Michigan cases. Click on the headlines below to read the article.

 

Bradley, Ed, Negative About Affirmative Action? 60 Minutes, CBS News, October 29, 2000

 

Bray, Thomas, Race Preferences Made Permanent Detroit News, December 20, 2000

 

Bray, Thomas, Soft Bigotry Wins Two in Court Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal, December 19, 2000

 

Cohen, Carl, Race Preference and the Universities, Commentary Magazine, September 8, 2001

 

Cohen, Carl, Winks, Nods, Disguises-and Racial Preference Commentary Magazine, September 1, 2003

 

Connerly,Ward, The Michigan Civil Rights Act: A Racial Privacy Initiative, National Review Online, July 8, 2003

 

Coulter, Anne, Racial Profiling In University Admissions Human Events Online, April 5, 2001)

 

Dalmia, Shikha, The Diversity Defense, The Weekly Standard March 28, 2001

 

Diversity stymied, Editorial, The Washington Post, November29, 2004

 

Dobbs,Michael, Universities Record Drop in Black Admissions The Washington Post, November 22, 2004

 

George, Maryanne, Minority Enrollment Bounces Back at UM Detroit Free Press, June7, 2005.

 

Greve, Michael, The Demise of Race-Based Admissions Policies Chronicle of Higher Education, March 19, 1999

 

George, Maryanne, Students in U-M Case Seek Damages Detroit Free Press, December 10, 2004.

 

Greve, Michael, A River Runs Dry, Policy Review, April 1,1999

 

Greve, Michael, The Vanity of Diversity, Weekly Standard, July 20, 1998

 

Hacker, Holly, A&M Pushing for Diversity Dallas Morning News, November 1, 2004

 

Hentoff, Nat, So Much for Equal Protection The Washington Times, July 14, 2003

 

Heriot, Gail, Affirmative Action Backfires, The Wall Street Journal, August 26, 2007

 

Heriot, Gail, The ABA's 'Diversity' Diktat, The Wall Street Journal, April 28, 2008

 

Iannone, Carol, Affirmative Action's Bard National Review, April 12, 2001

 

Krauthammer, Charles, Affirmative Action Fails Again The Washington Post, July 13, 2001

 

Kirsanow, Peter, Grutter: The Road to Further Litigation, National Review, July 7, 2003

 

Kirsanow, Peter, Michigan Impossible, National Review Online, July 1, 2003)

 

Kirsanow, Peter, Still Unconstitutional National Review Online, September 30, 2003

 

Lessenberry, Jack, What is Affirmative Action?, Detroit Metro Times, March 31, 1999

 

Lowry, Richard, Quota U: Ann Arbor Shows its Colors National Review March 19, 2001

 

Mauro, Tony, Stevens Offers an Inside Look, Legal Times, October 6, 2003

 

McWhorter, John. Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority, New York: Penguin Putnam, 2003.

 

McWhorter, John. Losing the race: Self Sabotage in Black America, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

 

McWhorter, John, Who Should Get into College?, City Journal November 30, 1999

 

More of Prof McWhorter's writings are avaiable here

 

Miller, John, Diversity D'oh, National Review, July 28, 2003

 

Pell, Terence. "The Nature of Claims About Race and the Debate Over Racial Preferences.” International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 18 (Spring, 2004), No. 1, 13-26.

 

Pell, Terence. "Comments on Sterba’s ‘The Michigan Cases and Furthering the Justification of Affirmative Action’.” International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 18 (Spring, 2004), No. 1, 35-38.

 

Pell, Terence. "Racial Preferences and Formal Equality." Journal of Social Philosophy, 34 (Summer, 2003) No. 2; 309-325.

 

Pell, Terence. "What's the Big Deal About Racial Preferences?" Journal of Social Philosophy, 34 (Summer, 2003) No. 2; 326-329.

 

Pell, Terence, Court Gives New Life to Quota Camouflage The Washington Post, June 27, 2003

 

Pell, Terence, Does 'diversity' Justify Quotas? The Courts Say No. Wall Street Journal, December 24, 1998

 

Pell, Terence, Is Judge Right on U-M Admissions Policy? Detroit News, Decebmer 17, 2000

 

Purdy, R.L. (2003) Prelude: Bakke Revisited,Texas Review of Law and Politics, 7, 313.

 

Rosman, Michael Uncertain Direction, Jurist Online, September 30 2003

 

Sander, R. H. (2004) A Systemic Analysis of Affirmative Action in American Law Schools, Stanford Law Review, 57, 367-483.

 

Visit Prof. Sander's website

 

Schemo, Diana, Group Vows to Monitor Academia's Responses The New York Times June 25, 2003

 

Schmidt, Peter, A New Route to Racial Diversity Chronicle of Higher Education, January 28, 2005.

 

Segal, David, D.C. Public Interest Law Firm Puts Affirmative Action on Trial The Washington Post, February 20, 1998

 

Smith, Kenneth, Skin Color Bonus Washington Times December 28, 2000

 

Staff Writer, Poll: Voters Support Affirmative Action Ban, but it's Confusing Associated Press, April 2, 2004

 

Steele, Shelby, The Age of White Guilt: and the Disappearance of the Black Individual, Harper's Magazine, November 30,1999.

 

Steele,Shelby, A Victory for White Guilt, Wall Street Journal, June28, 2003.

 

Steele, Shelby. A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America New York: Harper Collins, 1998.

 

Sterba, James. "The Michigan Cases and Furthering the Justification for Affirmative Action." International Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring, 2004) 1-12.

 

Sterba, James. "Comments on Pell's 'The Nature of Claims About Race and the Debate Over Racial Preferences'." International Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring, 2004) 27-34.

 

Sterba, James. "Defending Affirmative Action, Defending Preferences." Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 32 No. 4, (Summer 2003), 285-300.

 

Sterba, James. "What really is Pell's Idea of Formal Equality?" Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 32, No. 4, (Summer 2003) 301-308.

 

Thernstrom, Stephen, Alamo in Ann Arbor, National Review, September 13,1999

 

Weiss, Kenneth, Judge Halts Law School's Racial Admission Policy Los Angeles Times, March 28, 2001

 

Young,Cathy, Secrets and Lies Salon.com, April 28, 2001

 

 

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