The Affirmative Action Hoax

Author : Steven Farron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Affirmative Action Hoax written by Steven Farron and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debates surrounding Affirmative Action, the public policies and initiatives designed to help eliminate past and present discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, have raged for years. In his book, Professor Farron examines the history of affirmative action and exposes the fraudulent nature of its justification. The Affirmative Action Hoax centers on universities where academic achievement can be clearly compared and where affirmative action generates intense controversy. The Affirmative Action Hoax offers an uninhibited examination of the practice and exposes the damage it causes to society.

Author : Clint Bolick
Publisher : Cato Institute
ISBN 13 : 9781882577279
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Affirmative Action Fraud written by Clint Bolick and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By promoting race and gender preferences in jobs, government contracts, and college admissions; forced busing; and an apartheid-like system of racial gerrymandering, these policies deepen racial hostilities and undermine our commitment to individual rights while producing few tangible results.

Author : Rudolph Alexander Jr.
Publisher : Ethics International Press
ISBN 13 : 1804410934
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Affirmative Action written by Rudolph Alexander Jr. and published by Ethics International Press. This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many White people, and some conservative Black people, believe that affirmative action programs are unfairly depriving more deserving Whites of jobs and education opportunities. The author argues that is a myth. For example, University admissions data demonstrates that, despite affirmative action rhetoric, there remains systemic bias against Black students. Sociological data on criminal record, race, and employment, found that White people with a criminal record had a better chance of getting a call back, than Black people without one. Renowned Professor of Social Work Dr Rudolph Alexander Jr. analyses many examples which demonstrate that the claim that affirmative action programs have led to unfair discrimination against White people of equal ability, is a myth. Though not always comfortable reading, the book is an important addition to the literature on equality, diversity, and critical race theory.

Author : Randall Kennedy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307949362
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For Discrimination written by Randall Kennedy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive reckoning with one of America’s most explosively contentious and divisive issues—from “one of our most important and perceptive writers on race and the law.... The mere fact that he wrote this book is all the justification necessary for reading it.”—The Washington Post What precisely is affirmative action, and why is it fiercely championed by some and just as fiercely denounced by others? Does it signify a boon or a stigma? Or is it simply reverse discrimination? What are its benefits and costs to American society? What are the exact indicia determining who should or should not be accorded affirmative action? When should affirmative action end, if it must? Randall Kennedy gives us a concise and deeply personal overview of the policy, refusing to shy away from the myriad complexities of an issue that continues to bedevil American race relations.

Author : Melvin I. Urofsky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510769870
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Affirmative Action Puzzle written by Melvin I. Urofsky and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich, multifaceted history of affirmative action from the Civil Rights Act of 1866 through today’s tumultuous times From an acclaimed legal historian, a history of affirmative action from its beginning with the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to the first use of the term in 1935 with the enactment of the National Labor Relations Act (the Wagner Act) to 1961 and John F. Kennedy’s Executive Order 10925, mandating that federal contractors take “affirmative action” to ensure that there be no discrimination by “race, creed, color, or national origin” down to today’s American society. Melvin Urofsky explores affirmative action in relation to sex, gender, and education and shows that nearly every public university in the country has at one time or another, successfully or not, instituted some form of affirmative action plan. Urofsky traces the evolution of affirmative action through labor and the struggle for racial equality, writing of World War I and the exodus that began when some six mil­lion African Americans moved northward between 1910 and 1960, one of the greatest internal migrations in the country’s history. He describes how Harry Truman, after becoming president in 1945, fought for Roosevelt’s Fair Employment Practice Act and, surprising everyone, appointed a distinguished panel to serve as the President’s Commission on Civil Rights, as well as appointing the first black judge on a federal appeals court in 1948 and, by executive order later that year, ordering full racial integration in the armed forces. In this important, ambitious, far-reaching book, Urofsky writes about the affirmative action cases decided by the Supreme Court: cases that either upheld or struck down particular plans that affected both governmental and private entities. We come to fully understand the societal impact of affirmative action: how and why it has helped, and inflamed, people of all walks of life; how it has evolved; and how, and why, it is still needed.

Author : Alan Marzilli
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438105886
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Affirmative Action written by Alan Marzilli and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some advocates of affirmative action argue that the policy remains necessary in order to make the U.S. workforce more diverse.

Author : Ira Katznelson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393347141
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America written by Ira Katznelson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-08-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action. In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s were created in a deeply discriminatory manner. Through mechanisms designed by Southern Democrats that specifically excluded maids and farm workers, the gap between blacks and whites actually widened despite postwar prosperity. In the words of noted historian Eric Foner, "Katznelson's incisive book should change the terms of debate about affirmative action, and about the last seventy years of American history."

Author : Robert Zelnick
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780895264558
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backfire written by Robert Zelnick and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 1996-06-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines the controversial issue of affirmative action, discussing how it really works in such areas as employment, voting rights, mortgage and insurance regulation, education, and minority set-asides

Author : Robert Post
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race and Representation written by Robert Post and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of one of the most debated--and divisive--issues in American society today.Why has affirmative action become the lightning rod for conflicts over racial inequality in the United States? Have color-blind legal and political doctrines intensified or ameliorated America's racial divisions? Race and Representation invites the reader to enter a debate on a matter of the greatest moment for American universities, politics, and public life. Focusing on the politically driven decision of California's governor and the Board of Regents of the University of California to end affirmative action at the university, the subsequent enactment of an amendment to the California Constitution prohibiting the state from engaging in affirmative action, and court decisions in Texas that used the federal Constitution to prohibit affirmative action at state universities, the contributors to this volume incisively assess the current state of the tumultuous controversy over affirmative action.

Author : Kathiann M. Kowalski
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 9780761423003
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Affirmative Action written by Kathiann M. Kowalski and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2007 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Outlines the arguments of those both for and against affirmative action programs and the history behind such programs"--Provided by publisher.