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Book SynopsisTrade Review(Amy Wax) reviews a great deal of social science data showing the pallid or perverse effects of policies aimed at teenage pregnancy, education, job training, prison rehabilitation, and many more. * American Lawyer, October 1, 2009 *
Amy Wax's Race, Wrongs, and Remedies is a provocative discussion of policies to close the race gap in America. Using the insightful legal distinction between liability and remedy, she shows that self-help can be a powerful force for remediating social wrongs. This book will help change the dialogue of race in America from a discussion about passive victims, guilt, and reparations to a more active embrace of individual responsibility and human agency. Its message is bold and clear. -- James J. Heckman, professor of economics, The University of Chicago
Professor Wax's book is the quintessence of cool, clean, and unassailable good sense. One is to be pardoned for wondering whether the most important book on race of the year could be one by a white female law professor. Well, one need wonder no more—it is. * The New Republic *
Amy L. Wax combines conceptual insights from the law of torts and remedies with a thorough reading of the scholarship on racial disparities to bring much-needed clarity to the discussion of the black man's burden. * Claremont Review of Books *
Wax combines conceptual insights from the law of torts and remedies with a thorough reading of the scholarship on racial disparities to bring much-needed clarity to the discussion of the black man's burden.
Every officer in the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs should read this book. Indeed, every federal or state public servant delivering services to, and/or making policy for Aborigines should think deeply about the applicability to Aborigines of Amy Wax's insights into the plight of black Americans. * Public Administration *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter 1. The Remedial Ideal and the Demand for Racial Justice Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Group Disadvantage and the Case of Race Chapter 4 Chapter 3. Racial Disparities and Human Capital Deficits Chapter 5 Chapter 4. The Psychology of Victimization Chapter 6 Is Self-Help Possible? Chapter 7 Reparations, Affirmative Action, and the Relationship of Race and Class Chapter 8 Notes Chapter 9 Index
