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Introduction: Britain at the fin de siècle and the Orientalist unconscious -- The two tangents of British Orientalism : Burton and Doughty, dandy and prophet in the 1880s -- Khartoum nightmare : popular literature of the British campaign in the Sudan -- A refusal and a traversal : Robert Cunninghame Graham's engagement with Orientalism in Mogreb-el-Acksa -- Orientalism from within and without : Marmaduke Pickthall -- The Arabist as abject modern : T.E. Lawrence -- Conclusion: How to read the Orientalist archive.

The 2013 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin case clarified when and how it is legally permissible for universities to use an applicant's race or ethnicity in its admissions decisions. The court concluded that such use is permissible when 'no workable race-neutral alternatives would produce the educational benefits of diversity.' This paper shows that replacing traditional affirmative action with a system that uses an applicant's predicted likelihood of being an underrepresented racial minority as a proxy for the applicant's actual minority status can yield an admitted class that has a lower predicted grade point average and likelihood of graduating than the class that would have been admitted using traditional affirmative action. This result suggests that race-neutral alternatives may not be 'workable' from the university's perspective. [Copyright John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.]

Abstract
This paper is the first to document how the magnitude of affirmative action preferences in college admissions has varied across U.S. regions and across time and to illustrate how affirmative action practiced by "nearby" colleges varies. Two new contributions are established: 1) evidence of substantial variation in affirmative action at students' nearby colleges and 2) initially higher levels of affirmative action in the Northeast and Midwest in 1972, with affirmative action increasing in the South and West and declining in the Northeast and Midwest by 1992.