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...likely to embrace. The White House instead chose to begin conversations on race, led by an advisory board kept under its tight control. It is so tight that the board won't even have the last word: its report will be drawn up by a Clinton adviser, Christopher Edley Jr., who wrote the President's famous "mend it, don't end it" answer to critics of affirmative action...
Already, prepublication, the book is causing a stir. Christopher Edley, President Clinton's point man on the "mend it, don't end it" approach to affirmative action, published a rebuttal in Harvard magazine in July. Kirkus Reviews has declared the book "likely to be seen as the benchmark scholarly study of America's current anguish over the race question." The New Republic is planning an excerpt...
...almost unrelenting lack of sympathy to the other point of view that is most vexing about the Thernstroms' book," writes Edley. "The authors seem focused on readers who already agree with them. What contribution does this make? Doesn't it simply equip partisans with juicy quotations to score points?" And the book begs the question: If progress really is so great, why don't blacks believe it? Even those blacks who are high achievers are bitter about the racism they face (as witnesses another compelling book, Ellis Cose's The Rage of a Privileged Class, published in 1994). A recent...
...hard to overstate how valuable [empirical evidence] could be," Edley says...
...what extent to we do what we ought within our own communities to shape these values?" Edley asks. "Sometimes I have my doubts.... One of the ways an institution can lead externally is by demonstrating internally how best to engage a community in controversies of this sort...