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Higher Education and the Affirmative Action Issue

the direction has changed so much that white males are now looked upon as minorities in many educational, economic and employment ...

Constitutionality of Affirmative Action

is because it has helped perpetuate prejudices against those minorities abilities, creating the phenomenon of tokenism" (Hattis Ro...

Affirmative Action, Martin Luther King Jr., and Electoral College

institutions were not capable of doing the same thing at home or to say each of these deaths (King and the two Kennedys) was an is...

Human Resource Management and Affirmative Action

opportunity to businesses owned by women and minorities (Barna, 2001). The most recent changes in the laws and regulations actuall...

The Workplace and Affirmative Action

everyone had a chance to be hired for the same jobs, and to receive the same pay and treatment as everyone else. The exploration o...

Affirmative Action in Academic Institutions in California

academic affirmative actions programs in allowing affirmative action to be part of the enrollment process. While there is no ques...

For Business Affirmative Action is Unnecessary

necessary quota. The reasoning behind this was that other races were viewed as getting the short end of the stick if they had to ...

Undesirability of Affirmative Action Programs

think that in a democracy, the popular vote would rule. This is also consistent with the utilitarian point of view. Central to Uti...

Lydia Chavez' The Color Blind California's Battle to End Affirmative Action

gives certain people preferential treatment. Interestingly, this book reveals, with significant candor, both sides of this now co...

Supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action in the Area of Higher Education

continue acting as though they are contributing to a more racially diversified academic community, when in reality they are really...

The Pros and Cons of Affirmative Action

is not surprising that this had led to the implementation of state Affirmative Action directives. Supporters of Affirmative Act...

Affirmative Action Defended

In six pages this research paper presents an argument in support of affirmative action programs as necessary to ensure minorities ...

Pros and Cons of Affirmative Action As It Pertains to the Fire Safety Profession

In this paper consisting of seven pages the issue of Affirmative Action is presented from both sides illustrated by specific examp...

Affirmative Action and Why People Support It

Based on the premise of meeting social inequalities with civil rights, Affirmative Action sometimes appears to embrace and support...

Affirmative Action Program and its Problems

In five pages this research paper examines the problems associated with Affirmative Action programs and supports the argument that...

Is Affirmative Action Really Needed?

In a paper consisting of sixteen pages the Affirmative Action policies over the past thirty years are considered through an examin...

Employment Fairness in Employment: The Merit Principle Verses Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity

been put in place to combat inequality. Other legislative intervention has been of value as well. The Equal Pay Act of 1963, the...

Colin Powell and Affirmative Action

because of it. What makes Colin Powell different from many people of color is that he managed to make the system work for him. ...

Positive Affirmative Action Support and Conflict Perspectives

the black education movement have to thank for their refusal to obey a law which effectively denied knowledge to persons because o...

Affirmative Action Argument

any situation in which society must define how racism, education, employment and opportunity are interwoven, controversy will occu...

Another Look At Affirmative Action 3

refocus it (Riley A0-6). Among the most telling statistics: Nearly one in three white men in New York City - 31 percent,...

An Historical Perspective on Affirmative Action

In this paper consisting of five pages the historical antecedents and debates pro and con that have existed in the Affirmative Act...

Leveling the Playing Field with Affirmative Action

This includes not only employer/employee situations, but also school demographics, voter demographics and numerous other arenas wh...

The Pros and Cons of Affirmative Action

only persons of all racial backgrounds but also genders, disabilities, sexual orientations, political orientations, and nationalit...

The Government and Checks and Balances, Affirmative Action, and the Constitution

is bi-cameral, it has a number of checks it enacts on itself, including the fact that both houses have to agree before a bill can ...

Affirmative Action, Racial Profiling and Morality

is a rather difficult concept to explain. In essence, what Himma is saying is that "pervasive stereotypes cause even the most tale...

Affirmative Action, the Current Debate

This research paper pertains to the ongoing debate over affirmative action programs. The writer discusses the objections that have...

Affirmative Action and a Reaction to Albert Mosley's Essay

beliefs of White males who perceive themselves as suffering from Affirmative Action policies. Mosley readily admits that Whites ...

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION LEGISLATION: GOOD OR BAD?

call themselves), as well as other minorities, it still remains a White Mans world. Mostly older, white men control corporate weal...

The Pros and Cons of Affirmative Action

hiring of some quota of minorities is one form of affirmative action. Another form might be the privileged granting of small busin...