Une ruse de la déraison : l'action positive américaine

Pierre Guerlain, The Cunning of Unreason : American Affirmative Action When Affirmative Action was set up by liberals in the United States in the early 60s it was mostly an anti-discrimination effort. Nixon later made it an instrument of racial division. The left, which originally opposed racial, ethnic or gender quotas, abandoned its traditional universalistic stand and its socio-economic approach. It forgot the ideals of the war on poverty and found itself unable to oppose the new forms of racism which appeared under the guise of identity politics. Today the labor movement seems to be recovering and is forging new links with academics.Guerlain Pierre. Une ruse de la déraison : l'action positive américaine. In: L'Homme et la société, N. 125, 1997. Assignations identitaires et différenciation sociale. pp. 5-16