Background
Fair, Bryan Keith was born on August 12, 1960 in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Son of Dolores Elizabeth Fair.
( The Constitution of the United States, writes Bryan Fai...)
The Constitution of the United States, writes Bryan Fair, was a series of compromises between white male property holders: Southern planters and Northern merchants. At the heart of their deals was a clear race-conscious intent to place the interests of whites above those of blacks. In this provocative and important book, Fair, the eighth of ten children born to a single mother on public assistance in an Ohio ghetto, combines two histories —America's and his own —to offer a compelling defense of affirmative action. How can it be, Fair asks, that, after hundreds of years of racial apartheid during which whites were granted 100% quotas to almost all professions, we have now convinced ourselves that, after a few decades of remedial affirmative action, the playing field is now level? Centuries of racial caste, he argues, cannot be swept aside in a few short years. Fair ambitiously surveys the most common arguments for and against affirmative action. He argues that we must distinguish between America in the pre-Civil Rights Movement era —when the law of the land was explicitly anti-black —and today's affirmative action policies, which are decidedly not anti- white. He concludes that the only just and effective way in which to account for America's racial past and to negotiate current racial quagmires is to embrace a remedial affirmative action that relies neither on quotas nor fiery rhetoric, but one which takes race into account alongside other pertinent factors. Championing the model of diversity on which the United States was purportedly founded, Fair serves up a personal and persuasive account of why race-conscious policies are the most effective way to end de facto segregation and eliminate racial caste.
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Fair, Bryan Keith was born on August 12, 1960 in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Son of Dolores Elizabeth Fair.
Bachelor, Duke University, 1982. Juris Doctor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1985.
Associate, Bryan, Cave, McPheeter's & McRoberts, Los Angeles, 1985-1987; lecturer, University of California at Los Angeles Law School, Los Angeles, 1987-1991; assistant professor of law, University Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1991-1994; associate professor of law, University Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1994-1997; professor, U. Alabama, Tuscaloosa, since 1997; assistant vice president academic affairs, U. Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1994-1997. Board directors Equal Justice Initiative, Montgomery, Alabama.
( The Constitution of the United States, writes Bryan Fai...)
Member American Bar Association.
Married Tana Lea Sammuels, August 31, 1997.