Thirty Years With Affirmative Action

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ID2135152
AuthorsNathan Glazer (Harvard University, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume2
Issue1
Pages5-15
Publication date2005-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDu Bois Review Social Science Research on Race (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1742-058X • E-ISSN: 1742-0598
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1742058x05050022
OpenAlexW2069247419
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited6

Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy(1975) criticized government policies requiring goals and timetables from federal contractors in order to implement affirmative action, arguing that this opposed the clear language of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 aiming at a color-blind society, was unnecessary, and threatened a full-scale Balkanization in employment procedures. It also criticized school busing and nascent programs to require publicly supported housing to reach some statistical goal in proportions of Black and White. In time, the author changed his position, as indicated in the introduction to the 1987 edition ofAffirmative Discrimination. In particular, he saw the virtue and necessity of race preference in admission to institutions of higher education, recognizing the degree to which slavery and discrimination had placed blacks in a unique position of disadvantage, and the imperative for a democratic society to incorporate in its leading institutions all major elements of the population

Affirmative action · Civil rights · Democracy · Disadvantage · Economics · Ethnic group · Government (linguistics · Higher education · Political science · Politics · Position (finance · Preference · Race (biology · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Public Administration · Race, History, and American Society

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