Designed to Ameliorate the Condition of People of Color: The Reconstruction Republicans and the Question of Affirmative Action
By Kate Masur & Gregory Downs. What we confront here is not the familiar (to us) struggle between competing historically and archivally grounded interpretations but something quite different: a confrontation between historical practitioners and their widely held understandings of both historical method and of historical analysis, and opportunistic lawyers seeking support for contemporary policies they prefer.