UC Regents v Bakke (1978) with Mike Collins

This is Part I of a two-part interview with Mike Collins about Supreme Court affirmative action cases affecting higher education, including Bakke (1978), Fisher (2016), and Students for Fair Admissions (2023). For more, check out Collin's recent book, The Anti-Civil Rights Movement: Affirmative Action as Wedge and Weapon. 

• Mike Steven Collins. 2024. The Anti-Civil Rights Movement: Affirmative Action as Wedge and Weapon. University Press of Kansas.
• Heather McGhee. 2022. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. Penguin Random House.
• David W. Congdon. 2024. Who Is a True Christian? Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture. Cambridge University Press.
• Mary Anne Franks. 2024. Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment. Bold Type Books.
• James Marcus. 2024. Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Princeton University Press.
• Michael S. Collins. 2013. Understanding Etheridge Knight. University of South Carolina Press.
• Michael S. Collins. 2013. The Travelling Queen. Sheep Meadow Press. 
• Michael Collins. "’Tight Like This,’ recorded 1928, Chicago, Illinois.” The Rupture.
• Listen to Part II here

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