General Works on Affirmative Action and pertinent to all the issues raised in these pages 

Bacchi, Carol Lee. The Politics of Affirmative Action: 'Women', Equality and Category Politics. London: SAGE, 1996 

Bolick, Clint. The affirmative action fraud : can we restore the American civil rights vision? Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, c1996. 

Curry, George E., ed. The affirmative action debate. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, [1996]. 

Delgado, Richard. The coming race war? : and other apocalyptic tales of America after affirmative action and welfare. New York : New York University Press, c1996. 

Drake, W. Avon and Robert D. Holsworth. Affirmative action and the stalled quest for Black progress. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1996. 

Eastland, Terry. Ending affirmative action : the case for colorblind justice. New York : Basic Books, c1996. 

Edley, Christopher, Jr. Not all Black and white : affirmative action, race, and American values. 1st ed. New York : Hill and Wang, 1996. 

The Impact of Affirmative Action on Public-Sector Employment and Contracting in California, Paul Ong, Editor, California Policy Center, UCB, 1997. 

Jung, David, Cyrus Wadia (Public Law Research Institute, Hastings College of the Law), Murray J. Haberman (California Research Bureau). Affirmative action and the courts. Sacramento, CA: California Research Bureau, California State Library, [1996]. 

Kahlenberg, Richard D. The remedy : class, race, and affirmative action. New York : BasicBooks, c1996. 

McWhirter, Darien A. The end of affirmative action : where do we go from here? New York : Carol Pub. Group, c1996. 

Mills, Nicolaus, ed. Debating Affirmative Action: Race, Gender, Ethnicity and the Politics of Inclusion. NY: Delta Trade, 1994. 

Mosley, Albert G. and Nicholas Capaldi. Affirmative action : social justice or unfair preference? Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1996. 

Nordquist, Joan, ed. Affirmative action : a bibliography. Santa Cruz, CA : Reference and Research Services, c1996. 

Skrentny, John David. The ironies of affirmative action: politics, culture, and justice in America. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996. 

Tomasson, Richard F, Faye J. Crosby, and Sharon D. Herzberger. Affirmative action : the pros and cons of policy and practice. Washington, D.C. : American University Press, c1996. 

An overview of affirmative action : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress,... Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1996. 

Williams, Patricia. The Alchemy of Race and Rights. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1991. 

Zelnick, Bob. Backfire : a reporter's look at affirmative action. Washington, D.C. : Regnery Pub. ; Lanham, MD : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c1996. 

On structures of inequality in the American educational system, the myths of merit & the ideological work of standardized tests 

Allina, Amy. Beyond standardized tests : Admissions alternatives that work. Cambridge, MA: Fair Test, 1987. 

Barker, Pierce and Sol H. Pelavin. Issues of reliability and directional bias in standardized achievement tests : the case of MAT 70. Santa Monica: Rand Corporation, 1976. 

Black, Hillel, The truth about college entrance exams and other standardized tests. New York: Hart Pub. Co., 1963. 

Bugeja, Michael J. Academic socialism : merit and morale in higher education. Washington [D.C.] : Orchises, 1994. 

Maschke, Karen J., ed. Educational Equity. NY: Garland, 1997. 

McCallum, David. The social production of merit : education, psychology, and politics in Australia, 1900-1950. London ; New York : Falmer Press, 1990. 

Merit system and other provisions of the education, Government and Labor Codes of the State of California as of January 1984. Los Angeles : The Commission, 1984. 

Oakes, Jeanne. Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. 

Office for Minority Education, Educational Testing Service. An approach for identifying and minimizing bias in standardized tests : a set of guidelines. Princeton, N.J. : Educational Testing Service, 1980. 

Stewart, Donald M.  "Standardized Testing in a National Context."  In Arthur Levine, ed.  Higher Learning in America 1980-2000.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins UP, 1993. 344-360. 

Gender and the Law:  

Bartlett, Katherine T. and Rosanne Kennedy, eds. Feminist Legal Theory: Readings in law and gender. Boulder: Westview Press, 1991. 

Cornell, Drucilla. Beyond accommodation: Ethical Feminism, Deconstruction, and the Law. NY: Routledge, 1991. 

Edwards, Susan. Gender, Sex, and the Law. London: Croom Helm, 1985. 

---. Sex and Gender in the Legal Process. London: Blackstone, 1996. 

Hill, Anita Faye and Emma Coleman Jordan, eds. Race, Gender, and Power in America: The legacy of the Hill-Thomas hearings. NY: Oxford UP, 1995. 

Karst, Kenneth. Law's promise, Law's expression: Visions of power in the politics of race, gender, and religion. New Haven: Yale UP, 1993. 

Kirp, David L., Mark G. Yudof and Marlene Strong Franks. Gender Justice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. 

Matsuda, Mari J. Where is your body? and other essays on race, gender, and the law. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. 

Mclean, Sheila and Noreen Burrows, eds. The Legal Relevance of Gender: Some aspects of sex-based discrimination. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988. 

Naffine, Ngaire. Law and the sexes: explorations in feminist jurisprudence. Sydney; London: Allen & Unwin, 1990. 

Report of the Chief Justice's Task Force on Gender Bias. Western Australia, 1994. 

Rhode, Deborah L. Justice and Gender: Sex discrimination and the law. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1989. 

Winston, Kenneth and Mary Jo Bane, eds. Gender and Public Policy. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993. 

Collected Works: 

Selected Bibiliography of Works by Cornel West