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SITUATING INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS
LANGUAGE RIGHTS
ENTITLEMENTS AND CONTRACTS
MAJORITY VERSUS MINORITY INTERACTION
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Carl Cohen, Selection from Naked Racial Preference: The Case Against Affirmative Action (pp. 106-7)
• Stanley Fish, Selection from "Reverse Racism: Or How the Pot Got to Call the Kettle Black"
• William Henry, Selection from In Defense of Elitism (pp. 140-41)
• Tara Ragone, Affirmative Action in Higher Education (BA Honors Thesis; College of William and Mary, 1996)
• Patricia Williams, Selection from "Metro Broadcasting"
• The Center for Individual Rights (CIR) "The Center for Individual Rights is a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of individual rights. We are dedicated to a broad civil-libertarian conception of individual rights, encompassing both civil liberties and economic freedom. At the same time, CIR recognizes that effective legal advocacy requires a high degree of specialization. CIR concentrates on freedom of speech and civil rights --areas where individual rights are particularly at risk. CIR's experience and expertise in these complex fields of law ensure that its clients receive highly competent and effective legal representation."
  • Hopwood v. The State of Texas, August 1994
  "The plaintiffs have contended that any preferential treatment to a group based on race violates the Fourteenth Amendment and, therefore, is unconstitutional. However, such a simplistic application of the Fourteenth Amendment would ignore the long history of pervasive racial discrimination in our society that the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted to remedy and the complexities of achieving the societal goal of overcoming the past effects of that discrimination. Further, the Supreme Court, which is continually faced with trying to reconcile the meaning of words written over a century ago with the realities of the latter twentieth century, has declined to succumb to an original intent or strict constructionist argument. Therefore, the Court will decline the plaintiffs' invitation to ignore the law established by the highest court of this land and to declare affirmative action based on racial preferences as unconstitutional per se. The issue before the Court is whether the affirmative action program employed in 1992 by the law school in its admissions procedure met the legal standard required for such programs to pass constitutional muster. The Court, having carefully considered the evidence presented at trial, the arguments of counsel, and the briefing provided by the parties, finds that it did not."
• Hopwood v. Texas (page devoted to the case by the Tarlton Law Library at UT)
• The Voting Rights Act: 30 Years Later (Wendy Grossman)
• Independent Study on Affirmative Action: Where Are We? Where Do We Want to Go? (Course offered at Humboldt State University.

• National Center on Adult Literacy (US Dept of Education)
• UC Linguistic Minority Research Institute (UCSB)
• The English Only Debate
• ACLU Briefing Paper on "English Only" ("From its inception, the United States has been a multilingual nation.")
• Arizona's English-only law is ruled unconstitutional (CNN report; April 29, 1998)
• California Prop. 227
1. Bilingual Education in California (links related to Prop. 227)
2. "Bilingual Education is under assault in California" (US News; November 1997)
3. Analysis of "Achievement Gap" and Prop 227
4. California Prop. 227 Voter Analysis and Arguments (1998)
5. Online News Hour Forum:  Debate between Ron Unz, co-author of 227, and James Lyons, Executive Director of the NABE, debate on September 29, 1997.
• National Association for Bilingual Education

• Entitlements and the Elderly (The Urban Institute)
• Searching for Savings in Medicare
• Medicaid and Long-Term Care
• Why Social Security Reform Should Begin Now
• Gene Greer, Entitlements and Handouts: A Nation of Addicts
• Patricia Williams, Selection from"Metro Broadcasting"

• Gerald Early, Whatever happened to integration (Atlantic Monthly)
• Newt Gingrich on AA as a divisive force, from an LA Times editorial
• Patricia Williams, Selection from "Metro Broadcasting"

• Link to the bibliographies for this site.

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