The New York Times calls Linda Chavez "an influential voice on civil rights policy." The Washington Post describes her as one of "a new generation of intellectuals (seeking) to question the orthodoxies of the civil rights establishment."

Linda Chavez is president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, based in Washington, D.C. She is the author of Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation (Basic Books, 1991), which chronicles the untold... More >