Document Type
Article
Media Type
Text
Abstract
The age of race-conscious remedial programs is coming to its demise. This Comment analyzes the application of the Fourteenth Amendment to school desegregation decrees and affirmative action programs in higher education. Furthermore, the Comment addresses the progressively hostile attitude exemplified by the judiciary toward such programs when Constitutional violations are absent. Finally, this Comment argues that racism continues to extensively influence societal views and behaviors. Therefore, until more viable and effective solutions to racism are implemented, race-conscious affirmative action plans must survive. Consequently, the Supreme Court ought to mandate a lenient standard of review to race-based remedial programs in higher education. Doing otherwise would be contrary to the intent and spirit of the Fourteenth Amendment.
First Page
305
Last Page
356
Publication Date
5-1-1997
Department
College of Law
ISSN
0734-1490
Language
eng
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Law Review
Recommended Citation
Knickmeier, Amy L.
(1997)
"Blind Leading the "Colorblind": The Evisceration of Affirmative Action and a Dream Still Deferred,"
Northern Illinois University Law Review: Vol. 17:
Iss.
2, Article 1.
Suggested Citation
Amy L. Knickmeier, Comment, Blind Leading the "Colorblind": The Evisceration of Affirmative Action and a Dream Still Deferred, 17 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 305 (1997).
