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Equality and Transparency

A Strategic Perspective on Affirmative Action in American Law

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  1. Daniel Sabbagh
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Daniel Sabbagh
      Pages 1-10

  3. Assessing Justifications for Affirmative Action

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. The Corrective Justice Paradigm

      • Daniel Sabbagh
      Pages 13-30

    3. The Diversity Paradigm

      • Daniel Sabbagh
      Pages 31-48

    4. A Strategic and Consequentialist Perspective: Affirmative Action as an Instrument for Deracializing American Society

      • Daniel Sabbagh
      Pages 49-85

  4. Interpreting Legitimization Strategies for Affirmative Action

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      Pages 87-91
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    2. The Problems with the Deracialization Argument

      • Daniel Sabbagh
      Pages 93-104

    3. The Negative Side Effects of Transparency

      • Daniel Sabbagh
      Pages 105-115

    4. Evidence of Dissimulation Strategies

      • Daniel Sabbagh
      Pages 116-162

    5. General Conclusion

      • Daniel Sabbagh
      Pages 163-168

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 169-257
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Can affirmative action policies be convincingly justified? And how have they been legitimized over time? In a pluridisciplinary perspective at the intersection of political theory and the sociology of law, Daniel Sabbagh criticizes the two prevailing justifications put forward in favor of affirmative action: the corrective justice argument and the diversity argument.He defends the policy instead as an instrument designed to bring about the deracialization of American society. In this respect, however, affirmative action requires a measure of dissimulation in order to succeed.Equality and Transparency explains why this is so and provides a new interpretation of the strategic component in the Supreme Court's case law while identifying some of its most remarkable side effects.

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'Equality and Transparency is an erudite and analytically innovative study of affirmative action. It is particularly original and incisive in its treatment of the problematic aspects of the "diversity" rationale. I do not know of a more balanced and comprehensive treatment of the subject."

- George M. Fredrickson, Edgar E. Robinson Professor of United States History Emeritus, Stanford University"From the time America's Constitution-makers protected slavery without daring to use the word, the nation's leaders have often engaged in euphemism and misdirection when trying tomaintain andtrying to transformthe nation's pervasive patterns of racial inequality. Daniel Sabbagh's incisive study shows how today's Supreme Court continues that pattern, not daring either to endracial affirmative action or toembrace openly allthe reasons why it is still needed. A superb book." - Rogers M. Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

About the author

DANIEL SABBAGH is a research fellow at CERI/FNSP. He now teaches at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and at the Université Paris I (La Sorbonne), France.

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