Product Description: In the wake of the black civil rights movement, other disadvantaged groups of Americans began to make headway--Latinos, women, Asian Americans, and the disabled found themselves the beneficiaries of new laws and policies--and by the early 1970s a minority rights revolution was well underway...read more

Product Description: A new ethnic order has emerged in the United States. The growing number of Latinos and Asians has rendered the old black-and-white binary obsolete. And yet, political pundits and commentators on both the left and the right continue to overlook the changing face of discrimination and opportunity in today's new multiethnic, multiracial America...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes the origins of affirmative action in the conditions of the late 1960s and early 1970s, explains how it seemed to produce results when 'color-blind' policies--which often allowed other inequalities--did not, and discusses its limitations and sometimes unexpected results