Asserts that affirmative action is so contentious because it is not a true regime of group rights, discussing: when a group is not a group; black Americans and interest group pluralism; black Americans and corporatism; the prescience of black nationalists; the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund; when an organization is not an…

Suggests that key question is not whether quotas are right or wrong but at what level particular quotas should be set, what the rate of change to achieve a particular goal should be, when to increase or eliminate them, and the establishment of procedures and personnel used for executing them. (Author/AM)

Suggests that proportionality is the natural and logical outcome of a merit society in which race and ethnicity are irrelevant for eligibility, allocation of position, and distribution of rewards. (Author/AM)

Presents an interview with Rosalind Rosenberg, an historian who testified on behalf of Sears, Roebuck and Company in its defense against sex discrimination charges made by the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission. Focuses on the trial, affirmative action, women's studies, and feminism and scholarship. (KH)

Presents an interview with Alice Kessler-Harris, an historian who testified on behalf of the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission in its sex discrimination suit against Sears, Roebuck and Company. Focuses on Kessler-Harris's role in the trial, and the general themes of sex discrimination in employment, women and labor, and affirmative action.…

Examines the court transformation of civil rights from equal opportunity and nondiscrimination to racial/gender/ethnic proportional representation. It analyzes the implications for justice and equality and suggests that it is time to restore the moral ideals of the civil rights coalition of 1964. (GR)