Assignment:
In the United States, African Americans have historically been disadvantaged because of slavery and racial segregation. Is affirmative action in college admissions an acceptable form of compensation for historical disadvantage? Relying on the cases excerpted in Sandel, as well as the dialogue between Ronald Dworkin and Richard Bernstein, and considering Rawls and others on the subject of merit and distributive justice, write an essay examining the problem of affirmative action.