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The Affirmative Action Hoax: Diversity, the Importance of Character, and Other Lies Second Edition Steven Farron New Century Foundation Other titles from New Century Books: Jared Taylor, Ed., The Real American Dilemma: Race, Immigration, and the Future of America, 1998 George McDaniel, Ed., A Race Against Time: Racial Heresies for the 21st Century, 2003 Michael Levin, Why Race Matters: Race Differences and What They Mean, 2005 Carleton Putnam, Race and Reason: A Yankee View, 2006 Samuel T. Francis, Essential Writings on Race, 2007 Jared Taylor, White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century, 2011 Jared Taylor, Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America (20th Anniversary Kindle Edition, 2014, based on First Carroll & Graf Edition, 1992) Published daily on the Internet: American Renaissance www.amren.com Copyright © 2014 by New Century Foundation First edition published in 2005 by Seven Locks Press, initial copyright © 2005 by Steven Farron This Kindle edition is based on the First New Century Books Edition, Copyright © 2010 by New Century Foundation. Cover design by Kevin I. Slaughter Kindle edition prepared by John Vawter To my darling wife Esther Contents Notes on the Kindle Edition 1. The Beginning of Affirmative Action 2. Bakke: Diversity Replaces Redress 3. Quotas are Best 4. Quotas are Best: History Repeats Itself 5. Defining Minority and Race 6. Admissions I: The Lie That Affirmative Action is Compensation for Poverty and Other Handicaps 7. The Media vs. Reality I: Raising Intelligence and Improving Academic Performance 8. Admissions II: The Lie That Affirmative Action is One of Many Non- Academic Factors 9. Affirmative Grading and Graduation 10. Police Forces and Other Non-Academic Parallels 11. The Media vs. Reality II: Resolute Ignorance 12. Grades vs. Standardized Tests 13. What Standardized Tests Predict 14. Admissions III: The Shape Of The River: The Lie Exposed 15. The Shape Of The River: The Liars Defend Affirmative Action 16. The Ultimate Lie 17. Closing the Racial Gap in Education 18. After University: The Lie Continues 19. Who are the Victims? Appendices I. The Inclusion of More Successful Groups in Affirmative Action II. Constitutionality, Legality, and Democracy III. The SAT and Similar Tests IV. The Predictive Accuracy of Intelligence Tests Bibliography Notes on the Kindle Edition This text is current as of June 9, 2014 and includes new corrections as well as those from the Affirmative Action Hoax website [web link] dated February 2011. The print edition contains page footnotes, most of which include content as well as any citations. These notes have been collected and placed at the end of each chapter. Tables present a problem on e-readers. The tables in this book have been formatted to be as narrow as possible for maximum compatibility, but if a table appears truncated on the right margin or if it’s distorted by line wraps, please reduce the font size to compensate. Each table contains a link that moves the table to the top of the current page, so that a maximum amount of data is visible on a single page. This is intended to prevent a table from spanning two pages. The Author Steven Farron received BA and PhD degrees from Columbia University. Until 2001, he was a professor of Classics at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. His specialty was ancient Greek and Latin epic poetry, on which he published over 20 articles and a book. He resigned his academic position in order to devote his time to the study of the catastrophic results of trying to solve the perceived problem of the unequal success of ethnic, racial, and social groups: American affirmative action, the Holocaust, Armenian genocide, slaughter of the kulaks in the Soviet Union, and persecution of Chinese in Southeast Asia and of Indians in East Africa. Acknowledgements For years, Helen Savva, the reference librarian at the United States Government Public Affairs Office in Pretoria, South Africa, and Suzette Jansen van Rensberg of the University of the Witwatersrand Interlibrary Loans Office fulfilled my requests for articles and books with alacrity and efficiency. It is also a pleasure for me to express my gratitude to my friend Robert Terdiman, who sent me many of the articles from the New York Times from which I quote; to my friend Eugene Valberg and my ex-students Ayal Rosenberg and John Wiblin, who offered helpful comments on some of the content of this book; and to Louis Andrews, who offered valuable observations and encouragement. Last, but certainly not least, I thank my wife Esther for her enthusiasm, encouragement, and, more practically, proofreading. Preface to the Second Edition The re-issue of this book by the New Century Foundation offered me a chance to correct mistakes in the original edition, to reorganize it; and, most importantly, to add relevant information that became available after its original publication in 2005. These additions have made this second edition one-seventh longer than the first edition. I will advise readers who have the first edition that large-scale changes begin in Section C of Chapter 2.
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