Affirmative Action
Affirmative action refers to policies and practices designed to give groups that have suffered from discrimination in the past greater opportunities in employment, education, housing, and other areas of life. These policies go beyond forbidding employers, landlords, and others from discriminating on the grounds of race, sex, or other factors. They aim to give preferential treatment to groups that have been disadvantaged historically by actively encouraging their recruitment, hiring, and promotion.
From the beginning, the concept of affirmative action raised difficult questions. Many civil rights activists saw affirmative action as a necessary step in achieving equality for groups that had faced discrimination in the past. However, critics of affirmative action argued that individuals should be treated on their own merits without…>> (read more)
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Affirmative Action in the News
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Let me first thank the Harold Wolpe Trust for inviting me to give this lecture in honour of a man whom I have held in the…>> (read more)
"I suspect that Bookends, and by extension the L.A. United School District, simply doesn't like the book's message about the destructive nature of affirmative action."
Author Tony…>> (read more)
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Legislation often prescribes the broad parameters of social development, particularly in the creation of socio-economic entitlements and rights. In some cases such prescriptions may even be…>> (read more)
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