Affirmative action in the United States

time when Native Americans, African Americans, Chicanos, and Asian Americans have faced some sort of segregation in the United State. The implementation of affirmative action was meant to purse diversity and provides equal opportunity throughout higher education. It is certain that affirmative action has gone though many changes, and some races have benefited more than others, but due to the modifications at the State level, enrollment of minority students to the UC system has fluctuated. African American and Chicano students have been affected by low SAT scores, but have also found assistance in point systems. While high SAT scores have slimed the chances of Asian Americans getting into elite institutions, and ending affirmative action could be detrimental to Native…

Affirmative Actions are a multitude of efforts to defeat or at least minimize discriminative employment within a workforce. Affirmative Action’s help create a diversified workforce which could help an organization. I will discuss EEO compliance requirements that impact a federal subcontractor such as, Executive Order 11246, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act. Further, I will explain some of the components of an Affirmative Action plan and…

Sociology 2160-100The article “Does Affirmative Action Do What It Should?” by Dan Slatermarch asserts in many ways why affirmative action does work and why it doesn’t work. Clarence Thomas who is now an associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States stated reasons on why he opposed affirmative actions. In the article he told New York Times in 1982, “that affirmative action placed students in programs above their abilities (par 5).” He later on begin to assert how he watch the…

hours has shown to increase productivity. Evidence of this productivity was shown through the life under monopoly capitalism, which showed shorter hours and heightened productivity. Members in union also had better security of their job than those not in the union, this is because of the idea of “one for all, and all for one” unions have. However, to make up for past discriminations, organizations have put forth an “affirmative actions plan” that tries to compensate for past discriminations…

He goes in depth by using his success as an example that it's unnecessary for a person of color to need assistance in order to thrive. A good example of an inner dialogue by Rodriguez is “Several essays. I have argued particularly against government programs- affirmative action and bilingual education.” This was said after being mentioned that he has written about contemporary education. Therefore, shows the internal thinking of the author and how he actually feels versus on what he says towards…

“Class Action- A Challenge To Class-Based Affirmative Action” and “Affirmative Action Based on Income”, written by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Richard D. Kahlenberg, respectively, debate the merits of both affirmative action based on race and on socioeconomic class. Kahlenberg makes the claim that class is a bigger disadvantage than race in modern America to achieving a higher level of education. Jones, conversely, presents the counterargument that race continues to be the largest obstacle to higher…

One thing that brings race into affirmative action program is what concept of affirmative action is being used and discussed. When discussing white guilt and how it contributes to affirmative action, many people who experience the white guilt may be thinking about “affirmative action towards blacks versus affirmative action in general” (Swim and Miller, 1999, p513). This seems to resonate with the concept of color-blindness. There are two major settings of color-blindness concepts:…

face shortly. As I am aware, you are against affirmative action as I am too. I do not propose to sit here and waste your time about why affirmative action is good or bad but rather propose a compromise between the two sides. Affirmative action has its positives and its negatives as does everything but does one side outweigh the other; does discriminating against the majority justify expanding cultural diversity in the student body? Or should minority students be left to deal with applying to…

Dear University of Texas, Austin Office of Admissions, I write this letter to you in regards to your race-based affirmative action program that has been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court as of 2013. Just a few years ago, a woman by the name of Abigail Fisher challenged your affirmative action program created to increase the enrollment of minority students. The Supreme Court decided in favor of this program, and by doing so, upheld the use of race-based affirmative action in higher education,…

Affirmative actions are made to help those who are seen inferior, like women or the black. They do not have any advantages to find their jobs with the competition with the white men. Similarly, Hispanics have to face insults because their identities would bring them trouble. However, after the call for affirmative action, women and the black have opportunities to work at the same position. Similarly, after those Hispanic writers’ efforts, the culture of Hispanic seems to be famous, although…