Media
Dworkin, R. “Affirmative Action: Does It Work? Affirmative Action: Is It Fair?” In: Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Ezorsky, G. Racism and Justice: The Case for Affirmative Action. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991.
Fish, S. “Reverse Racism, or How the Pot Got to Call the Kettle Black.” The Atlantic, November 1993.
Guyot, J. F. “The Defining Moment for Gender Equity.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 20, 2001.
Newton, L. “Reverse Discrimination as Unjustified.” Ethics 83 (1973): 308–12.
Steele, S. The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America. New York: HarperPerennial, 1991.
Thomson, J. J. “Preferential Hiring.” Philosophy & Public Affairs 2 (Summer 1973): 364–84.
Web Links
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs special report: “Reparations for Slavery” debate:
<http://www.cceia.org/resources/picks/175.html>
PBS site for the documentary Banished (includes a section on reparations for African Americans)
<http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/banished/>
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry, “Affirmative Action”
<http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/affirmative-action/>
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry, “Topics in Feminism”
<http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-topics/>
U.S. Department of Labor page on affirmative action