Christopher Jencks, in The New York Re-Discrimination view ofBooks (March 3 and 17, 1983), P.O. Box 940, Farminedale, N.Y. 11737.
Are "affirmative action" quotas and other compensatory federal anti- discrimination efforts unnecessary?
Thomas Sowell, an influential black UCLA economist, believes they are, and his arguments in such books as Ethnic America (1981) have supported the Reagan administration's retreat from social activism. But Jencks, a Northwestern University sociologist, takes...