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In my Responses, I take up the various definitional and justificatory challenges that Anita Allen, Anthony Appiah and Bill Lawson raise to my defense of affirmative action and I try to build bridges and remove the apparent disagreements between our views. In the process, I have found a way to replace race-based affirmative action with a non-race-based program which retains all the benefits that a race-based program can provide and secures additional benefits as well.
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Correspondence on 12/16/2009.
Of course, other things would not be equal if these new arrivals were treated just as badly as poor Appalachian whites.
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Sterba, J.P. Responses to Allen, Appiah, and Lawson. J Ethics 15, 291–306 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-011-9105-3
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