Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms and Initialisms -- Introduction -- 1 "The Best 'Affirmative Action Program' Is Creating Jobs for Everyone": Organized Labor Responds to Affirmative Action, 1960-1974 -- 2 "This Strange Madness": The Origins of Opposition to Higher Education Affirmative Action, 1968-1972 -- 3 "This Issue Is Getting Hotter": The Struggle over Affirmative Action Policy in the Early 1970s -- 4 "Treat Him as a Decent American!": DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974) and Colorblindness in the Courtroom -- 5 "Do Whites Have Rights?": White Detroit Policemen and the "Reverse Discrimination" Protests of the 1970s -- 6 "The Fight for True Nondiscrimination": The Politics of Anti-Affirmative Action in the 1970s -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.