The Chronicle of Higher Education
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

A glance at the current issue of Latino Policy & Issues Brief: What white Americans fear about affirmative action

The strongest source of white opposition to affirmative action today is neither racism nor a sincere conviction that any favoritism, even if compensatory, is wrong, but rather a "desire to protect fellow whites," three scholars argue in a paper released last week by the UCLA Chicano Studies...

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