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Book · 2025 · Social Science

The Affirmative Action Myth

Why Blacks Don't Need Racial Preferences to Succeed

by Jason L Riley · Recommended by 2 people on 2 podcasts

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Glenn Loury — 1 mention
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“Well, you know, um if you were to pick up a typical um work wanted ad, `` page in 1960 in a major American city, you would see explicit kind of no blacks need applied type language.”
Megyn Kelly — 1 mention
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“by the affirmative action myth by Jason Riley. It's out tomorrow. The affirmative action myth. You will not be sorry you did.”

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“His new book, The Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don't Need Racial Preferences to Succeed, is out tomorrow and highlights how black achievement was on the rise before racial preference policies”