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Trying to move beyond the racial-preference era
Ian Reifowitz is an assistant professor of history at SUNY-Empire State College in Old Westbury. On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled in Ricci v. DeStefano against the city of New Haven, which had discarded a test because no black and disproportionately few Hispanic firefighters scored high enough on it to qualify for promotions. The decision turns on the justices' considered interpretations of civil...
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