Inhyuck Ha is professor at Western Carolina UniversitySamuel L. Myers Jr is professor of human relations and social justice at University of Minnesota

• Chapter 1: The ProblemChapter 2: Problem Structuring, Race and Policy AnalysisChapter 3: The Curious Case of Competitive Swimming and Racial Disparities in DrowningChapter 4: The Problem of Racial Disparities in Child MaltreatmentChapter 5: Public Procurement and Contracting: The Largest Affirmative Action Program of AllChapter 6: Markets, Market Failure, and Black-White Earnings Inequality: Race Neutrality and the Rising Tide Lifts All Ships HypothesisChapter 7: Deterrence as a Race-Neutral Strategy: The Case of Racial Disparities in Lending Chapter 8: Compliance as a Race-Neutral Strategy: The Case of Reverse Discrimination LitigationChapter 9: Alternatives to Race-Neutrality

This book is very timely, given the renewed debate over affirmative action and other race conscious remedies to inequality. Myers and Ha review alternative frameworks for understanding racial differences in success and provide qualitative and quantitative evidence in support the state of racial disparities and the effectiveness of race conscious and race neutral strategies to reduce those disparities. Examples from a variety of contexts enable the reader to ground the analysis in a practical way. It is a much needed contribution to ongoing discussions.

Inhyuck Ha is professor at Western Carolina UniversitySamuel L. Myers Jr is professor of human relations and social justice at University of Minnesota

• Chapter 1: The ProblemChapter 2: Problem Structuring, Race and Policy AnalysisChapter 3: The Curious Case of Competitive Swimming and Racial Disparities in DrowningChapter 4: The Problem of Racial Disparities in Child MaltreatmentChapter 5: Public Procurement and Contracting: The Largest Affirmative Action Program of AllChapter 6: Markets, Market Failure, and Black-White Earnings Inequality: Race Neutrality and the Rising Tide Lifts All Ships HypothesisChapter 7: Deterrence as a Race-Neutral Strategy: The Case of Racial Disparities in Lending Chapter 8: Compliance as a Race-Neutral Strategy: The Case of Reverse Discrimination LitigationChapter 9: Alternatives to Race-Neutrality

This book is very timely, given the renewed debate over affirmative action and other race conscious remedies to inequality. Myers and Ha review alternative frameworks for understanding racial differences in success and provide qualitative and quantitative evidence in support the state of racial disparities and the effectiveness of race conscious and race neutral strategies to reduce those disparities. Examples from a variety of contexts enable the reader to ground the analysis in a practical way. It is a much needed contribution to ongoing discussions.

Inhyuck Ha is professor at Western Carolina UniversitySamuel L. Myers Jr is professor of human relations and social justice at University of Minnesota

• Chapter 1: The ProblemChapter 2: Problem Structuring, Race and Policy AnalysisChapter 3: The Curious Case of Competitive Swimming and Racial Disparities in DrowningChapter 4: The Problem of Racial Disparities in Child MaltreatmentChapter 5: Public Procurement and Contracting: The Largest Affirmative Action Program of AllChapter 6: Markets, Market Failure, and Black-White Earnings Inequality: Race Neutrality and the Rising Tide Lifts All Ships HypothesisChapter 7: Deterrence as a Race-Neutral Strategy: The Case of Racial Disparities in Lending Chapter 8: Compliance as a Race-Neutral Strategy: The Case of Reverse Discrimination LitigationChapter 9: Alternatives to Race-Neutrality

This book is very timely, given the renewed debate over affirmative action and other race conscious remedies to inequality. Myers and Ha review alternative frameworks for understanding racial differences in success and provide qualitative and quantitative evidence in support the state of racial disparities and the effectiveness of race conscious and race neutral strategies to reduce those disparities. Examples from a variety of contexts enable the reader to ground the analysis in a practical way. It is a much needed contribution to ongoing discussions.