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AFFIRMATIVE  ACTION

ELECTRONIC  MEDIA
“‘Affirmative Action’: A Worldwide Disaster,” Commentary, December 1989, by Thomas Sowell
“The Perversity of Diversity,” Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2012, by Thomas Sowell
Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It by Richard H. Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr. (eTextbook)
“Commentary: The Disease as Cure,” Washington University Law Quarterly, Volume 1979, Issue 1, pp. 147–157, by Antonin Scalia
“Preferential Admissions: An Unreal Solution to a Real Problem,” University of Toledo Law Review, Spring/Summer 1970, pp. 377–402, by Clyde W. Summers, available via the HeinOnline Law Journal Library
“Affirmative Action,” (within Chapter 5) Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell (Audiobook, Kindle)
“The Next Battle Over Racial Preferences,” City Journal, Autumn 2023, by Renu Mukherjee
ESSAYS,  ARTICLES  AND  CHAPTERS
“‘Affirmative Action’: A Worldwide Disaster,” Commentary, December 1989, pp. 21–41, by Thomas Sowell
“The Perversity of Diversity,” Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2012, pp. 76–78, by Thomas Sowell
“Commentary: The Disease as Cure,” Washington University Law Quarterly, Volume 1979, Issue 1, pp. 147–157, by Antonin Scalia 
“Preferential Admissions: An Unreal Solution to a Real Problem,” University of Toledo Law Review, Spring/Summer 1970, pp. 377–402, by Clyde W. Summers
“Affirmative Action,” Social Justice Fallacies, pp. 115–127, by Thomas Sowell
“The Next Battle Over Racial Preferences,” City Journal, Autumn 2023, pp. 62–67, by Renu Mukherjee
BOOKS  AND  MONOGRAPHS
Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It by Richard H. Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr.
Affirmative Action Around the World by Thomas Sowell
Affirmative Action Reconsidered: Was It Necessary in Academia? by Thomas Sowell
When Race Trumps Merit by Heather Mac Donald
Ethnicity and Equality: The Shiv Sena Party and Preferential Policies in Bombay by Mary Fainsod Katzenstein
Competing Equalities: Law and the Backward Classes in India by Marc Galanter
“Affirmative Action Policies: India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka,” Ethnic Studies Report, Volume XV, Number 2 (July 1997), published in Sri Lanka
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