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affirmative action
american culture
american history
american politics
angry while males
Author_Lydia Chavez
california
california civil rights initiative
californian politics
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civil rights
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feminists
glynn custred
grassroots
identity politics
initiative process
minority populations
political campaign
political initiative
proposition 209
public relations
race
race in america
republican party
thomas wood
wedge issues
Product details
- ISBN 9780520213449
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 17 Apr 1998
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"The Color Bind" tells the story of how Glynn Custred and Thomas Wood, two unknown academics, decided to write "Proposition 209" in 1992 and thereby set in motion a series of events, far beyond their control, destined to transform the legal, political, and everyday meaning of civil rights for the next generation. Going behind the mass media coverage of the initiative, Lydia Chavez narrates the complex underlying motivations and maneuvering of the people, organizations, and political parties involved in the campaign to end affirmative action in California. For the first time, the role of University of California regent Ward Connerly in the campaign - one largely assigned to public relations - is put into perspective. In the course of the book Chavez also provides a rare behind-the-scenes journalistic account of the complex and fascinating workings of the initiative process. Chavez recreates the post-election climate of 1994, when the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI) appeared to be the right-time, right-place vehicle for Governor Pete Wilson and other Republican presidential prospects.
President Clinton and the state Democratic Party thought the CCRI would splinter the party and jeopardize the upcoming presidential election. The Republicans, who saw the CCRI as a 'wedge issue' to use against the Democrats, found to their surprise that the initiative was much more divisive in their own party. Updating her text to include the most current material, Chavez deftly delineates the interplay of competing interests around the CCRI, and explains why the opposition was unsuccessful in its strategy to fight the initiative. Her analysis probes the momentous - and national - implications of this state initiative in shaping the future of affirmative action in this country.
Lydia Chavez is Associate Professor at the School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
