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- 81: Racism Today
- ... were prepared to accept other races as their equals (Bloom 29). "Now, however, the issue of race has become more complex^×more complex because there are now multiple agendas including affirmative action, quotas, and set-asides" (Piazza 34). The main agenda revolves around affirmative action, steps taken by an employer, school, or other institution to expand oppurtunities for blacks, hispanic people, women or other minority groups. "The clear implications of the most recent ...
- 82: African Culture
- ... war of maneuver, the principal efforts of the subordinated are devoted to self-preservation and resistance. They are anathematized; they lack social standing or political rights. In respect to social action, their options are generally reduced: to withdrawal into exclusive (and excluded) communities, to subversion (Bhabha 1994), and occasionally, to armed revolt. In a schematic account of this type, there is ... already in the mid-1960s such voices were heard decrying the tendency toward "positive discrimination" (Gordon 1964); by the mid-1970s a leading neoconservative could produce an influential tract entitled Affirmative Discrimination (Glazer 1975), and an important intervention of 1978 claimed that race was "declining in significance" (Wilson 1978). Among ordinary whites similar fragmentations occurred: reacting to perceived losses in their ... contradictory notions of racial identity. The significance of race ("declining" or increasing?), the interpretation of racial equality ("color-blind" or color conscious?), the institutionalization of racial justice ("reverse discrimination" or affirmative action?), and the very categories -- black, white, Latino/Hispanic, Asian American, and Native American -- employed to classify racial groups were all called into question as they emerged from the ...
- 83: Racism
- ... that they are doing it. They think it's normal behavior, it doesn’t even phase them when they do it. Born of the civil rights movement three decades ago, affirmative action calls for minorities and women to be given special consideration in employment, education and contracting decisions. In its modern form, affirmative action can call for an admission’s officer faced with two similarly qualified applicants to choose the minority over the white, or for a manager to recruit and hire ...
- 84: Racism - The Future
- ... that they are doing it. They think it's normal behavior, it doesn’t even phase them when they do it. Born of the civil rights movement three decades ago, affirmative action calls for minorities and women to be given special consideration in employment, education and contracting decisions. In its modern form, affirmative action can call for an admission’s officer faced with two similarly qualified applicants to choose the minority over the white, or for a manager to recruit and hire ...
- 85: The Women's Civil Rights Movement
- ... Indians, and Eskimos. Why women? As a minority of the population in the United States , women face many of the same obstacles as do minority group males. Legislation has created "Affirmative Action". Affirmative action seeks to over come discrimination and the exclusion of women and minorities from hiring and promotion in public an private employment and from enrollment in colleges and professional ...
- 86: After Various Writings By Rich
- ... read only part of his book. I found it quite fascinating. Rodriguez goes through many problems of identity. He has mixed feelings about his own self. He mainly talks about affirmative action. What does the term “minority student” mean? Is it something we want to be classified as? I had an experience in high school in which a student denied a part ... but Hispanic. When I heard this, it was very surprising. I cannot understand how this particular person decided to simply become Hispanic just so he could get the benefits of affirmative action. He was applying to scholarships and various universities, and he knew that if he was classified as a minority student, he would receive better benefits. This is not ...
- 87: Glass Ceiling in Corporate America
- ... and aides when needed, customize job training to the employee's disability, or selectively placing the employee in a work environment where no accommodation is needed. Corporate America should use affirmative action as a tool. Affirmative action has been a subject of controversial debate for many years, b ut when affirmative action is implemented correctly it means opening the system and casting for a wide ...
- 88: Segregation and The Civil Rights Movement
- ... the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) when it was founded in 1957. SCLC wanted to complement the NAACP legal strategy by encouraging the use of nonviolent, direct action to protest segregation. These activities included marches, demonstrations, and boycotts. The violent white response to black direct action eventually forced the federal government to confront the issues of injustice and racism in the South. In addition to his large following among blacks, King had a powerful appeal to ... willing to participate in protest marches as long as necessary to achieve their goal and who were also willing to be arrested and sent to jail. The first SCLC direct-action campaign began in 1961 in Albany, Georgia, where the organization joined local demonstrations against segregated public accommodations. The presence of SCLC and King escalated the Albany protests by bringing ...
- 89: In Search Of Your Own Identity
- ... read only part of his book. I found it quite fascinating. Rodriguez goes through many problems of identity. He has mixed feelings about his own self. He mainly talks about affirmative action. What does the term minority student mean? Is it something we want to be classified as? I had an experience in high school in which a student denied a part ... but Hispanic. When I heard this, it was very surprising. I cannot understand how this particular person decided to simply become Hispanic just so he could get the benefits of affirmative action. He was applying to scholarships and various universities, and he knew that if he was classified as a minority student, he would receive better benefits. This is not ...
- 90: Racial Profiling
- ... doesn’t make it real or lack of media coverage doesn’t make a problem nonexistent. But because of the many stories and statistical reports, the lawsuits and even recent action by the government, make a good argument that , “driving while black,” is not just an occasional problem. Some of these stories are absolutely ridiculous there are so many cases its ... not is a big problem among the news media itself. When the media covers a story about drugs they often show the black drug dealer , abuser , criminal or the undeserving affirmative action recipient. When we look at the ways the national media has covered or failed to cover recent stories or studies we get a better understanding of the practice or ...
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