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Affirmative Action
Title: Affirmative Action
Category: Society & Culture / Religion
Details: Words: 1653 | Pages: 7.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Affirmative Action
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
INTRODUCTION
Affirmative action is the name of an American social practice through which members of historically disadvantaged racial and/or ethnic groups are given preferential treatment in an effort to compensate for past harm caused to their ancestors. For thirty years, affirmative action was carefully shielded from open, honest evaluation while it simultaneously grew more pervasive along with the federal bureaucracy and welfare state. The recent political upheaval caused by the Republican takeover …showed first 75 words of 1653 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1653 total…Fostering the Advancement of Women in
the Sciences. Mathematics, and Engineering. 1996. New York: Jossey-Bass Inc.
Cross, Theodore. What If There Was No Affirmative Action in College Admissions? A Further
Refinement of Our Earlier Calculation. Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, n5 p52-55 Fall
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Horner, Constance. “Reclaiming the Vision: What should we do after affirmative action?”
The Brookings Review Summer 1995: 6-11.
Knight, Al. “Affirmative-Action Flaws Persist.” Denver Post May 14, 1989: 1H, 2H. Reprinted
from SIRS 1989 Work, Volume 4, Article 49.
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