affirmative action laws

• Erasing racism: the federal government made schools integrate and it passed affirmative-action laws to promote racial justice, but are such measures just and effective?

Race & Liberty in America: The Essential Reader, edited by Jonathan Bean, Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky, 2009, 331 pages, paperback. [...

• The New American
• November 23, 2009

• After affirmative action: life under an executive order suggests the future of affirmative action in a post-CCRI California.

California Civil Rights Initiative Amendments to affirmative action laws can only be done through such processes as the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI). This is illustrated by changes in the affirmative action programs in the California State Civil Service.

• Reason
• Vol. 28 Nbr. 6, November 1996

• Jackson Hopeful After Key Economic Meetings, but Set to Strategize with Nnpa

This is the time to apply the affirmative action laws, Title VI and executive orders," [Jesse Jackson] said in an interview with the NNPA News Service. "We want parity in employment, parity in executives, in entrepreneurship and in business. "We want fair share to go to NNPA," said Jackson, who has fought alongside NNPA Chairman Danny Bakewell for inclusion in advertising dollars for NNPA newspapers and economic parity for small and Black-owned businesses in general. As a long list of white-owned newspapers have gone out of business during the economic crisis of recent years, most Black-owned newspapers have survived, but under great duress - largely because of longstanding race discrimination. GM filed for bankruptcy protection June 1. The company will now become two parts, a "new" G...

• Chicago Defender
• July 01, 2010

• Affirmative action: 40th anniversary: an analysis of books on the promises and pitfalls of a Federal policy intended to equalize opportunity. (An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement) (Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr, and the Laws That Changed America) (Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby) (The Case for Affirmative Action in University Admissions) (Affirmative Action Is Dead: Long Live Affirmative Action) (When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America) (Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White) (Race and College Admissions: A Case for Affirmative Action) (Book Review)

IF WE ARE TO BELIEVE JAMES FARMER'S MEMOIR LAY BARE THE HEART: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement (Texas Christian University Press, Septem...

• Black Issues Book Review
• Vol. 7 Nbr. 5, September 2005

• Discrimination

... by equal employment opportunity (EEO) laws. Subcategories of people within each protected cla... to this rule concerns the use of affirmative action programs (discussed later), which, under ce...

• Encyclopedia of Management
• A-Z

• Serving Diverse Communities - Cultural Competency

IHN is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to encourage professional excellence among Hispanic local government administrators; improve the management of local government; provide unique resources to Hispanic local government executives and public managers; and advance the goals of professional, effective, and ethical local government administration. Some think of cultural competency as affirmative action, multiculturalism, diversity training, equal employment opportunity, political correctness, or other methods and laws used to increase diversity in organizations.

• PM. Public Management
• Vol. 89 Nbr. 6, July 2007

• Shouldn't be a federal case: affirmative action, like myriad other topics including anti-sodomy laws, should not be a subject for the federal courts to decide.

The Supreme Court on June 23rd upheld 5-4 the University of Michigan's affirmative action policy for its law school. That policy seeks an enrollment o...

• The New American
• July 28, 2003

• Veronica's View; Supreme Disappointment May Be the Tip of the Iceberg

While President [Bush] beamed that he has just offered the job to a smart man, he's really the smart one. By selecting a man with a gray slate, there's not a lot that's documented to address, attack or assess about his record. And unless he's got a few skeletons in his closet (which I am sure Bush has checked and double checked to be sure they don't exist) the confirmation process will be laced with rigorous moments of debate at best (because it makes good TV) and be relatively perfunctory. In 2003 Senator Ted Kennedy, D-Ma., opposed the nomination of [Roberts] to the appellate court citing his concern about Roberts' "efforts to limit reproductive rights as a government lawyer, his advocacy against affirmative action and his federal environmental protection laws in his efforts to shield...

• Sentinel; Los Angeles, Calif.
• August 05, 2009

• Todd Palin No Poster Boy for Yup'ik Eskimos or Other Native Alaskans

In her speech, [Sarah Palin] boasted that during her tenure as governor she squeezed the oil and gas industry for billions that have enriched the state's businesses and residents, and boosted employment in some communities. That prosperity hasn't touched many Native Alaskans; overall, one-fifth live below the poverty line. In some rural villages, their jobless rate tops 80 percent. Despite sheaths of anti-discrimination laws on the books in Alaska, and even an affirmative action plan for military veterans with special needs, discrimination against Native Alaskans runs rampant. The racial disparities between Native Alaskans and whites are even more glaring in public education and the criminal justice system. Native Alaskans account for slightly more than 12 percent of the state's public ...

• Boston Banner, The
• August 28, 2009

• Illegal-Immigrant Tuition Seditious

Clark D. Ivory and Lane Beattie are very good at using the art of sophistry to convince Utahns that they have an obligation to grant in-state tuition rates to the children of illegal aliens (Nov. 21). Wasn't it a tenet of Karl Marx, who spoke in favor of "from each according to their ability and to each according to their needs"? Charity, Mr. Ivory, is a voluntary action. Passing laws to achieve your designs is compulsory and antithetical to the foundations of a constitutional republic. We have laws for good reasons, and if you aid and abet lawbreakers, you are acting in a seditious manner unbecoming a stalwart citizen. Those who would enter the United States illegally are lawbreakers. Those who would hire illegal aliens are lawbreakers. And those who would pass affirmative-action laws ...

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• November 27, 2005