Racial Preferences Debate Makes A Comeback
Brownstein, Ronald
National Journal, June 6, 2009, v41, #23, pp44-48
"During the 1970s and '80s, programs to increase representation of minorities in public- and private-sector hiring, college admissions, and government contracting ignited many of the most searing arguments in American politics and helped remake the Republican and Democratic electoral coalitions. But since then these issues have provoked only rare skirmishes, as a combination of political, economic, and cultural changes have reduced their visibility and immediacy to all but a handful of activists on each side. [...] Now Sotomayor's nomination is forcing these issues back into the spotlight. And they have quickly proved as polarizing as ever."
Ronald Brownstein is a national political correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, and the author of the weekly Washington Outlook column, which appears in the Times and is syndicated nationally.
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