[Legal Documents] [Theoretical Analyses] [Administrative Documents] [Newspaper & Journal Articles]

This page last revised:June 20, 2002.

Legal Documents:

• Full Text of California Civil Rights Initiative
• Court Motion for a Restraining Order on Prop. 209 (November 27, 1996)
• Preamble to a Motion on Diversity Policies (November 1995 Resolution)

Theoretical Analyses:

• A Brief History of affirmative action (1996)
• Derrick Bell, excerpt 1 on discrimination, from And we are not saved: The elusive quest for racial justice (1987)
• Bell, excerpt 2 on economics
• Bell, excerpt 3 on institutional discrimination
• Derrick Bell on afffirmative action and Harvard (1989)
• Barbara Bergmann, excerpt 1 on affirmative action, from In Defense of Affirmative Action (1996)
• Bergmann, excerpt 2 on economics
• Bergmann, excerpt 3 on wages
• Bergmann, excerpt 4 on quotas
• Bergmann, excerpt 5 on victimization
• Linda Chavez, excerpt 1, from Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation (1991)
• Chavez, excerpt 2 on voting rights
• President Bill Clinton on affirmative action (1996)
• Pete Wilson on the minority-majority society (1996)
• Carl Cohen, excerpt 1 from Naked Racial Preference: The Case Against Affirmative Action (1995)
• Cohen, excerpt 2 on discrimination
• Cohen, excerpt 3 on individual rights
• Cohen, excerpt 4 on quotas
• Cohen, excerpt 5 on reverse racism
• Richard Delgado on affirmative action and the race war (1996)
• D'Souza on affirmative action (1991)
• Stanley Fish, excerpt 1, from Reverse Racism: Or How the Pot Got to Call the Kettle Black (1993)
• Fish, excerpt 2 on individual rights
• Fish, excerpt 3 on merit
• Gramsci on the unitary school (on tests, competition, and merit) (1959)
• Mark Halstead on the different types of racism
• Mark Halstead on multicultural education
• William Henry, excerpt 1, from In Defense of Elitism (1994)
• Henry, excerpt 2 on economics
• Henry, excerpt 3 on gender
• Henry, excerpt 4 on the glass ceiling
• Henry, excerpt 5 on individual rights
• Henry, excerpt 6 on merit and competition
• Henry, excerpt 7 on merit
• Henry, excerpt 8 on multiculturalism
• Henry, excerpt 9 on multiculturalism (2)
• Henry, excerpt 10 on multiculturalism (3)
• Henry, excerpt 11 on quotas
• Henry, excerpt 12 on victimization
• Hout Report on the survey of faculty attitudes toward affirmative action
• Jesse Jackon on the presidential campaign (1996)
• Andrew Kull, excerpt on discrimination, from The Color-Blind Constitution (1992)
• Kull, excerpt 2 on competition
• Kull, excerpt 3 on economics
• Kull, excerpt 4 on discrimination (2)
• Kull, excerpt 5 on voting rights
• Kull, excerpt 6 on quotas
• Kull, excerpt 7 on voting rights (2)
• Audre Lorde, on discrimination, from Sister Outsider (1984)
• Omi and Winant on racial formation in the US (1986/89)
• Henry Shapiro on affirmative action and Princeton
• Tucker and Thompson on diversity and enterprise (1990)
• Cornel West, excerpt 1 from Race Matters (1994)
• West, excerpt 2 on discrimination
• Wilkins on racism (1995)
• Patricia Williams, excerpt 1 on discrimination (1990)
• Williams, excerpt 2 on individualism/groups
• Williams, excerpt 3 on contract law
• Williams, excerpt 4 on individualism
• Williams, excerpt 5 on multiculturalism
• Williams, excerpt 6 on race blindness
• Yates on equity management (1993)
• Thomas Yingling on institutional discrimination (1991)

Administrative Documents:

• Statement on Prop. 209 by UCSB Chancellor Henry Yang, November 1996
• UCR Statement by the Academic Senate, November 1996
• UC Response to Temporary Restraining Order, November 1996
• Statements by UC President and Provost on Prop. 209, November 1996
• UC Academic Senate on UC admissions, May 1996
• UC General Counsel Memo regarding outreach and interpretation of SP-1 and SP-2, January 1996
• SP-1
• SP-2
• Shared Governance at UC: A Historical Overview, November 1995
• UC Academic Senate: Mail Ballot on Regents' November 1995 Resolution
• UC Admissions Task Force Report

Newspaper and Journal Articles:

• LA Times on decline in underrepresented minority applicants
• Santa Barbara News-Press on women and Prop. 209, November 1996
• The Independent on Prop. 209, November 1996
• San Francisco Examiner on legal disputes over Prop. 209, November 1996
• The Wall Street Journal on race and business, November 1996
• UCSB Graduate Student Newsletter on Prop. 209, November 1996
• Santa Barbara News-Press on Prop. 209, November 1996
• LA Times on protests at regents' meeting, November 1996
• Santa Barbara News-Press on student protests of Prop. 209, November 1996
• Santa Barbara News-Press on protests, November 1996
• Santa Barbara News-Press on impending court battle over Prop. 209, November 1996
• ACLU files lawsuit to block implementation of Prop. 209, November 1996
• Scripps-McClatchey on Prop. 209 poll, November 1996
• LA Times on public education, October 1996
• LA Times on Hopwood case ruling, July 1996
• LA Times on Hopwood case ruling (2), July 1996
• San Francisco Examiner on ACLU, May 1996
• LA Times on merit, May 1996
• Santa Barbara News-Press on UC regents, May 1996
• The Chronicle of Higher Education on court rulings on affirmative action, May 1996
• The Chronicle of Higher Education on Texas ruling, May 1996
• San Francisco Chronicle on lawsuit against regents, April 1996
• LA Times editorial on Gingrich, November 1995
• Santa Barbara News-Press on quotas, August 1995
• 93106 on UC diversity policy, July 1995

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