Deconstructing the Affirmative Action Categories

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ID3758541
AuthorsGeorge R La Noue (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), John C Sullivan (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Year1998
Volume41
Issue7
Pages913-926
Publication date1998-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764298041007005
OpenAlexW1984548844
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited5

Affirmative action preferences have traditionally benefited four racial and ethnic group categories: African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and Native Americans. These categories may be overinclusive, masking important socioeconomic differences among nationalities within the categories. The problem of overinclusiveness is now being raised by post-Croson disparity studies and by courts evaluating those studies, particularly in the area of business formation rates. When the differences among nationalities are compared through census data and regression analysis, they show wide variations within the affirmative action categories and for White ethnic groups as well. This suggest that a discrimination hypothesis cannot explain all these variations. The affirmative action categories reflect bureaucratic convenience more than demographic realities

Affirmative action · Bureaucracy · Census · Demographic economics · Economics · Ethnic group · Political science · Politics · Population · Race (biology) · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · White (mutation) · Demography · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Taxation and Compliance Studies

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