Affirmative Action Is Dead, Long Live Affirmative Action.  By     Faye J. Crosby. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 352p. $30.00.  Through an informative professional literature review, Faye Crosby     intends to educate affirmative action critics and a skeptical public about     the real-life operation of and continuing need for a largely misunderstood     social policy. Her book's key question is “why does the policy     of affirmative action which appears reasonable to many social scientists     attract so much negative comment?” (p. 22). Despite confusion with     illegal quotas and with the Supreme Court's newly minted diversity     justification, Crosby is convinced that social science studies prove that     properly implemented affirmative action is largely beneficial and still     necessary to overcome overt or subtle in-group prejudice, discrimination,     and exclusion.