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The Assault on Diversity

An Organized Challenge to Racial and Gender Justice

Lee Cokorinos

The Assault on Diversityis an essential handbook on the complex network of conservative foundations, think tanks, legal advocacy groups, and coordinating structures working to undermine the historic gains of the civil rights movement. It contains detailed profiles of the key organizations and leaders of this movement, and an assessment of how the coming to power of the George W. Bush administration has affected their prospects.
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 208 • Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7425-2476-7 • Paperback • April 2003 • $54.00 • (£42.00)
Subjects: Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy
Lee Cokorinos, research director at the Institute for Democracy Studies in New York, has been conducting research on political movements in the United States and Africa for over two decades.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Foreword
Chapter 3 The New Threat to Diversity
Chapter 4 The Historical Background of the Battle Against Affirmative Action
Chapter 5 The Political Battle: Ballot Initiatives, Media Outreach, and Legislative Action
Chapter 6 The Legal Battle: Strategic Litigation and Networking
Chapter 7 The Assault on Diversity and the Coming to Power of the George W. Bush Administration
The right-wing research centers and law firms' well-coordinated efforts are meticulously documented in Lee Cokorinos's The Assault on Diversity. . . . The Assault on Diversity situates all the present-day right-wing power centers in a diagram that in its intricacy looks like the plans for a complex engeneering project.
— The Nation


Mr. Cokorinos characterizes the various challenges to colleges' affirmative action programs as 'a project of the major foundations of the political right' carried out by a well-funded nationally based network.
— The Chronicle of Higher Education


The Assault on Diversity documents in exceptional detail this nationwide effort to roll back a proud half-century of progresss toward social justice and a more inclusive society.
— The New York Times


The Assault on Diversity reinforces with critical data the challenges we confront as our hard-fought civil rights victories come under attack in our nation's courtrooms, legislatures, state houses, and universities. This book puts on notice all of us who are committed to social justice in America. Unless we as a nation respond firmly to this challenge, we will witness the foreclosure of justice and equality for millions of Americans.
— Barbara R. Arnwine, executive director, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law


An invaluable resource for uncovering the institutions, people and money behind the attack on affirmative action.
— Socialist Worker


This book makes clear that the opposition to affirmative action has not been a spontaneous, rational response to America's most serious domestic problem, but rather a well-orchestrated, abundantly funded ideological campaign. The Assault on Diversity is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of civil rights in America, and indeed the very nature of American democracy itself.
— Jack Greenberg, former director-counsel, NAACP; founding member MALDEF; argued Brown v. Board of Education


Lee Cokorinos of the Institute for Democracy Studies has done an extremely thorough job of documenting the 'organized challenge to racial and gender justice.'
— Diverse: Issues In Higher Education


Contains detailed profiles of the network of conservative foundations, think tanks, legal advocacy groups, and coordinating structures, which the author believes are currently working together to undermine the historic gains of the civil rights movement.
— Hispanic Outlook


The Assault on Diversity

An Organized Challenge to Racial and Gender Justice

Cover Image
Paperback
Summary
Summary
  • The Assault on Diversityis an essential handbook on the complex network of conservative foundations, think tanks, legal advocacy groups, and coordinating structures working to undermine the historic gains of the civil rights movement. It contains detailed profiles of the key organizations and leaders of this movement, and an assessment of how the coming to power of the George W. Bush administration has affected their prospects.
Details
Details
  • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
    Pages: 208 • Trim: 6 x 9
    978-0-7425-2476-7 • Paperback • April 2003 • $54.00 • (£42.00)
    Subjects: Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy
Author
Author
  • Lee Cokorinos, research director at the Institute for Democracy Studies in New York, has been conducting research on political movements in the United States and Africa for over two decades.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
    Chapter 2 Foreword
    Chapter 3 The New Threat to Diversity
    Chapter 4 The Historical Background of the Battle Against Affirmative Action
    Chapter 5 The Political Battle: Ballot Initiatives, Media Outreach, and Legislative Action
    Chapter 6 The Legal Battle: Strategic Litigation and Networking
    Chapter 7 The Assault on Diversity and the Coming to Power of the George W. Bush Administration
Reviews
Reviews
  • The right-wing research centers and law firms' well-coordinated efforts are meticulously documented in Lee Cokorinos's The Assault on Diversity. . . . The Assault on Diversity situates all the present-day right-wing power centers in a diagram that in its intricacy looks like the plans for a complex engeneering project.
    — The Nation


    Mr. Cokorinos characterizes the various challenges to colleges' affirmative action programs as 'a project of the major foundations of the political right' carried out by a well-funded nationally based network.
    — The Chronicle of Higher Education


    The Assault on Diversity documents in exceptional detail this nationwide effort to roll back a proud half-century of progresss toward social justice and a more inclusive society.
    — The New York Times


    The Assault on Diversity reinforces with critical data the challenges we confront as our hard-fought civil rights victories come under attack in our nation's courtrooms, legislatures, state houses, and universities. This book puts on notice all of us who are committed to social justice in America. Unless we as a nation respond firmly to this challenge, we will witness the foreclosure of justice and equality for millions of Americans.
    — Barbara R. Arnwine, executive director, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law


    An invaluable resource for uncovering the institutions, people and money behind the attack on affirmative action.
    — Socialist Worker


    This book makes clear that the opposition to affirmative action has not been a spontaneous, rational response to America's most serious domestic problem, but rather a well-orchestrated, abundantly funded ideological campaign. The Assault on Diversity is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of civil rights in America, and indeed the very nature of American democracy itself.
    — Jack Greenberg, former director-counsel, NAACP; founding member MALDEF; argued Brown v. Board of Education


    Lee Cokorinos of the Institute for Democracy Studies has done an extremely thorough job of documenting the 'organized challenge to racial and gender justice.'
    — Diverse: Issues In Higher Education


    Contains detailed profiles of the network of conservative foundations, think tanks, legal advocacy groups, and coordinating structures, which the author believes are currently working together to undermine the historic gains of the civil rights movement.
    — Hispanic Outlook


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