Roger Wilkins

Biography

Roger Wilkins, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. Department of Justice, is currently Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History and American Culture at George Mason University. He serves as publisher of The Crisis, the national publication of the NAACP, and has authored several books, most recently Jefferson’s Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism (Beacon, 2002).

See Work

ESSAYS / Winter 2004

Doing the Work: Why We Need Affirmative Action

By Roger Wilkins

The arguments about whether affirmative action has run its course, has accomplished its purposes, or now constitutes an enshrined system of discrimination against white people contain so little historical perspective that they are...