Appiah, K. Anthony and Gutmann, Amy. Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Bell, Derrick. Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism. New York: Basic Books, 1992.

Bergmann, Barbara R. In Defense of Affirmative Action. New York: New Republic/Basic Books, 1996.

Chavez, Linda. Out of the Barrio: The New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation. New York: Basic Books, 1991. Linda Chavez was staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights during the Reagan Administration. (She is not to be confused with Linda Chavez- Thompson, a member of President Clinton's advisory panel on race relations.)

Clayton, Obie, Jr., ed. An American Dilemma Revisited: Race Relations in a Changing World. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1996. (See also Myrdal's An American Dilemma listed below.)

Coleman, Jonathan. Long Way to Go: Black and White in America. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press (forthcoming).

Cose, Ellis. Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.

Curry, George E., ed., with contributions by Cornel West. The Affirmative Action Debate. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1996.

Eastland, Terry. Ending Affirmative Action: The Case for Colorblind Justice. New York: Basic Books, 1996.

Edley, Christopher, Jr. Not All Black and White: Affirmative Action, Race, and American Values. New York: Basic Books, 1996.

Fernandez, Ricardo R. et al. Strategies for Effective Desegregation. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1983.

Franklin, John Hope. The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-First Century. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1993.

Franklin, John Hope. Racial Equality in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Franklin, John Hope and Moss, Alfred A., Jr. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans. Seventh ed. New York: Knopf, 1994.

Fuchs, Lawrence H. The American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press and University Press of New England, 1990.

Fullinwider, Robert K. Public Education in a Multicultural Society: Policy, Theory, Critique. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Galston, William A. Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. and West, Cornel. The Future of the Race. New York: Knopf, 1996.

Hacker, Andrew. Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal. New York: Scribner s, 1992.

Hochschild, Jennifer L. Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Kahlenberg, Richard D. The Remedy: Class, Race, and Affirmative Action. New York: New Republic/Basic Books, 1995.

Kennedy, Randall. Race, Crime, and the Law. New York: Pantheon, 1997.

Lagemann, Ellen Condliffe and Miller, Lamar P., eds. Brown v. Board of Education: The Challenge for Today's Schools. New York: Teachers College Press, 1996.

Loury, Glenn C. One by One from the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America. New York: Free Press, 1995.

Marzorati, Gerald and Whittemore, Katharine, eds., with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Voices in Black and White: Writings on Race in America from Harper s Magazine. New York: Franklin Square Press, 1993.

Myrdal, Gunnar et al. An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. New York: Harper, 1944. (See also An American Dilemma Revisited above, which re-examines the themes in this classic study.)

Nordquist, Joan, comp. Affirmative Action: A Bibliography. Santa Cruz, CA: Reference and Research Services, 1996.

Orfield, Gary; Eaton, Susan E.; and the Harvard Project on School Desegregation. Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education. New York: New Press, 1996.

Russell, Cheryl. The Official Guide to Racial and Ethnic Diversity: Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Whites. Ithaca, NY: New Strategist, 1996.

Shipler, David K. A Country of Strangers: Black and White in America. New York: Knopf (forthcoming).

Simms, Margaret V., ed. Economic Perspectives of Affirmative Action. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1995. Sponsored by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

Skrentny, John David. The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture, and Justice in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Sleeper, Jim. Liberal Racism. New York: Viking, 1997.

Steele, Shelby. The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.

Takaki, Ronald T. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.

Takaki, Ronald T. A Larger Memory: Voices of Multicultural America. Boston: Little, Brown (forthcoming).

Takaki, Ronald T. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans. Boston: Little, Brown, 1989.

Terkel, Studs. Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel about the American Obsession. New York: New Press, 1992.

Thernstrom, Abigail M. Whose Votes Count: Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987.

Thernstrom, Stephan and Thernstrom, Abigail M. America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.

Weinberg, Meyer, comp. Racism in Contemporary America. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. Third in a series of book-length bibliographies on racism.

West, Cornel. Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America. New York: Routledge, 1993.

West, Cornel. Race Matters. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993.

SELECTED INTERNET RESOURCES

Please note that USIS assumes no responsibility for the content and availability of the sources listed below, which resides solely with the providers.

Affirmative Action and Diversity Project: A Web Page for Research
http://humanitas.ucsb.ed u/aa.html

A comprehensive academic resource that seeks to present diverse opinions regarding affirmative action topics. Contains policy documents, current legislative updates, articles and analyses, and an annotated bibliography as well as a substantial amount of information on California politics and the recent Proposition 209.

Affirmative Action Review: Report to the President
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OP/html/aa/aa-index.html

Published on July 19, 1995, this key Administration document is a comprehensive review of Federal Affirmative Action Programs.

DLC PPi
http://www.dlcppi.org/

Electronic publications from The New Democrat, a bi-monthly magazine from the Democratic Leadership Council. They include: Race in America, ( http://www.dlcppi.org/adobe/tndrdrs/racerdr.pdf) -- a reader in PDF format that contains articles from the individual issues below:

Beyond Affirmative Action, May-June 1995, vol. 7, no. 5
http://www.dlcppi.org/tnd/9505.htm

The Future of Integration, July-August 1996, vol. 8, no. 5
http://www.dlcppi.org/tnd/9607/default.htm

CCRI: The California Civil Rights Initiative


http://www.publicaffairsweb.com/ccri/

This site by proponents of Proposition 209 contains current news, facts, and official texts concerning the CCRI campaign to end racial and gender preferences, quotas and set-asides.

Chronicle of Higher Education: Information in Depth
http://chronicle.com/che-data/indepth.dir/indepth.htm

Affirmative action and desegregation are among the topics explored in detail. A password is required. Free to print subscribers.

DiversityWeb
http://www.inform.umd.edu/Diversityweb/

Part of the Diversity Works family of projects, this Web site includes institutional profiles of over 200 universities and colleges with diversity programs. Also links to the University of Maryland at College Park's Diversity Database, a comprehensive index of multicultural and cultural diversity resources.
http://www.inform.und.edu/EdRes/Topic/Diversity

It's US: A Celebration of Who We Are in America Today
http://www.pathfinder.com/@@d18ZvQYA2ekCLvPc/corp/itsus

This Time-Warner, Inc. photo essay explores through words and pictures who we Americans really are and depicts the richness of the different cultures and backgrounds that we come from.

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
http://www.jointctr.org/

Highlights the research, publications, and outreach programs of the Joint Center, a national, nonprofit institution, which focuses on public policy issues of special concern to black Americans.

One America for the 21st Century: The President's Initiative on Race
http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/america.html

Official site of President Clinton's year-long initiative to present to the nation his vision of a stronger, more just and more united American community one offering opportunity and fairness for all Americans. Links to major presidential addresses on racial issues include:

Liz Sutherland Carpenter Distinguished Lectureship in the Humanities and Science at the Erwin Center, University of Texas at Austin, October 16, 1995
http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/19970610-839.html

Affirmative Action. Remarks at the National Archives, July 19, 1995
http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/19970610-1444.html

Remarks at the National Association of Black Journalists, July 17, 1997
http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/nabj.html

Race and Ethnicity Online
http://www.providence.edu/polisci/rep

Created by the American Political Science Association's Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, this site focuses on research related to Native-, African-, Latino and Asian Pacific Americans.

Race Data
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/race.html

Official statistics from the U.S. Census.

Race Relations
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/race_relations/race_relations.html

This Online Backgrounder provides a list of recent PBS interviews and programs on racial issues. Transcripts are available online.

School Desegregation
http://www.edweek.org/context/topics/deseg.htm

An Issues Page from the periodical Education Week. Links to archival stories, Web sites, and related organizations.

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
http://www.usccr.gov/index.html

Source of numerous publications discussing discrimination or denial of equal protection of the laws because of race, national origin, and other factors.

U.S. Dept. of Justice. Civil Rights Division
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/crt-home.html

Includes key speeches, special issues publications, texts of cases, and a newsletter.

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
http://www.eeoc.gov/

This site provides facts about employment discrimination, enforcement, litigation, and technical assistance.