Contents
Introduction
Part 1
1. In Defense of Affirmative Action
2. Affirmative Action and the University: Faculty Appointment and Preferential Treatment
3. Affirmative Action and Faculty Apppointments
Part II
4. What Good Am I?
5. Who "Counts" on Campus?
6. Reflections on Affirmative Action in Academia
7. The Injustice of Strong Affirmative Action
8. Preferential Treatment Versus Purported Meritocratic Rights
9. Faculties as Civil Societies: A Misleading Model for Affirmative Action
10. Facing Facts and Responsibilities: The White Man's Burden and the Burden of Proof
11. Affirmative Action: Relevant Knowledge and Relevant Ignorance
12. Remarks on Affirmative Action
13. Affirmative Action and the Multicultural Ideal
14. "Affirmative Action" in the Cultural Wars
15. Quotas by Any Name: Some Problems of Affirmative Action in Faculty Appointments
16. Are Quotas Sometimes Justified?
17. Proportional Representation of Women and Minorities
18. An Ecological Concept of Diversity
19. Careers Open to Talent
20. Some Sceptical Doubts
21. Affirmative Action and Tenure Decisions
22. Affirmative Action and the Awarding of Tenure
23. The Case for Preferential Treatment
24. Saying What We Think
25. Comments on Compromising and Affirmative Action
About the Authors
Index