Affirmative action

United States have adopted affirmative action policies in efforts to correct discrimination. Some of these policies are racially based and intended to give support to disadvantaged, historically-discriminated minorities. Although it may help a few, race based affirmative action in universities should be abolished because it is discriminatory and creates division, may actually be helpful affected minority students, and masks the real problem. Race based affirmative action is itself…

In Santa Clara County, California the transportation agency implemented an affirmative-action plan to tackle the historical patterns of discrimination against women and minorities. By implementing affirmative action, this allowed the agency to take into consideration gender when making promotions to positions. In the past, the transportation agency’s pattern traditionally segregated job classification in which women had been significantly underrepresented. The division of road-maintenance…

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…

This African American study will define the fairness of Affirmative Action in not allowing poorer whites the same availability of jobs than are offered to persons of color. The argument of class inequality of poor white workers has often been used as a premise to argue in favor of preferential treatment of Africa-Americans in the labor markets. In these cases, the problem of low employment opportunities is falsely being exploited to blame African Americans for taking jobs from poor whites. Poor…

certain that affirmative action has benefited a group of people more than others. Initially, affirmative action was meant for federal contractors. Although, they were supposed to employee people without regards to their race, color, or national origin, studies have shown “that affirmative action helps white woman” (Nittle) more than women or men of color. In the Supreme Court case of Abigail Fisher versus the University of Texas, ironically, she is the type of person affirmative action…

“Examining the Effect of Affirmative Action” Affirmative Action is the policy of intentionally selecting those who are deemed disadvantaged by indication of their ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or other innate human quality. This is usually determined on the grounds of historical oppression, such as maltreatment of females throughout history. The United States uses affirmative action towards minorities at a relatively high rate compared to other countries, in order to correct the long-lying…

Rights Movement, affirmative action policies were intended to provide equal opportunities for members of minority groups and women in education and employment. In 1961, President Kennedy introduced the term "affirmative action" in an Executive Order that directed government contractors to take “affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.” Affirmative action policies…

Affirmative Action and Diversity Affirmative Action is known as equality between people. In the past or at present, because of different skin colors, different religions or different genders people all around the world have been afflicted by discriminations. So in order to not let discriminations happen, governments published the Affirmative Action. With the Affirmative Action, people across the globe have same chance to access to education or employment. There are no shortages of examples…

among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Base on the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), affirmative action are policies in which an institution or organization actively engages in efforts to improve opportunities for historically excluded groups in American society. Affirmative action often focuses on employment and education. Affirmative action help improve American societies by eliminating discrimination. Discrimination is the practice of unfairly treating a…

opportunities that affirmative action offered.(Mainstream). For black individuals that were poorer and lack education affirmative action was unattainable. Later, the black individuals that received jobs , education and training moved away from the individuals that lack in all categories, named the abandoned. Affirmative action led to the creation of the Mainstream and Abandoned. Mainstream tried to assimilate to white middle class society. It seemed as though affirmative action was bias toward…