Table of Contents

Contents

List of Illustrations 
Preface 

Introduction: Race Preferences and Race Privileges
1. Of Fish and Water: Perspectives on Racism and Privilege
2. The Bankruptcy of Virtuous Markets: Racial Inequality, Poverty, and  “Individual Failure”
3. Keeping Blacks in Their Place: Race, Education, and Testing
4. Been in the Pen So Long: Race, Crime, and Justice
5. Civil Rights and Racial Equality: Employment Discrimination Law, Affirmative Action, and Quotas 
6. Color-Blindness as Color Consciousness: Voting Rights and Political Equality
Conclusion: Facing Up to Race

Afterword to the 2023 Edition 
Notes 
Bibliography
About the Authors
Index

About the Author

Michael K. Brown is Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Martin Carnoy is Professor of Education and Economics at Stanford University.
Elliott Currie is Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine.
Troy Duster and Marjorie M. Shultz are Emeritus Professors at the University of California, Berkeley.
David B. Oppenheimer is Clinical Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law.
David Wellman (1940–2022) was Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.