Volume 36, Number 15 · October 12, 1989
Affirmative Action: The New Look
By Andrew Hacker
Eliminating Racism: Profiles in Controversy
edited by Phyllis A. Katz, edited by Dalmas A. Taylor
Plenum, 380 pp., $49.50
Freshman Admissions at Berkeley: A Policy for the 1990s and Beyond Division, Academic Senate, University of California
a Report by the Committee on Admissions and Enrollment, Berkeley, by Jerome Karabel chairman
57 pp., Free
Choosing a College: A Guide for Parents and Students
by Thomas Sowell
Harper and Row, 224 pp., $17.95
The Case Against the SAT
by James Crouse, by Dale Trusheim
University of Chicago Press, 224 pp., $22.50
Blacks in College: A Comparative Study of Students' Success in Black and in White Institutions
by Jacqueline Fleming
Jossey-Bass, 276 pp., $24.95
A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society
edited by Gerald David Jaynes, edited by Robin M. Williams Jr.
National Academy Press, 608 pp., $35.00
Visions of a Better Way: A Black Appraisal of Public Schooling
by the Committee on Policy for Racial Justice, prepared by Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, preface by John Hope Franklin
Joint Center for Political Studies Press, 50 pp., $9.50 (paper)
Minorities in Higher Education
edited by Reginald Wilson, edited by Deborah J. Carter
American Council on Education, 36 pp., $8.50 (paper)
Affirmative action may be out of favor at the Supreme Court, but it is becoming a stronger force on the nation's campuses. Until a decade or so ago, questions of ethnicity and equity could be considered as involving mostly blacks and whites. Now Asians and Hispanics among others are making their claims as well, and the rules determining which groups will be given preferential treatment have been changing. To take only two examples:
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