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Against Affirmative Action
Title: Against Affirmative Action
Category: History / World History
Details: Words: 1217 | Pages: 5.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Against Affirmative Action
Against Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action was first used during the Civil Rights movement. It was intended to balance injustices suffered by minority groups, especially blacks. It was defined as a program for giving preference to individuals for positions in schools and workplaces, based on that person's membership in a previously discriminated-against group. According to The New Encyclopedia Britannica "it began as a government remedy to the effects of historical discrimination against such groups and has …showed first 75 words of 1217 total…
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Works Cited
"Affirmative Action." New Encyclopedia Britannica. 15th ed. 2002.
"Affirmative Action." Women's Issues. Ed. Dawn P. Dawson, et al. Vol. 1. Pasadena: Salem P, 1997. 23-24.
"Affirmative Action." World of Sociology. Ed. Joseph M. Palmisano.Vol. 1. Farmington Hills: The Gale Group. 2001. 12-13.
Ransby, Barbara. 12 May 1999. "Brown v. Board of Education 45 Years Later." Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. 7 February 2003.
Traub, James. "Forget Diversity." 2 February 2003. The New York Times. Magazine.5 February 2003. <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/02/magazine/02WWLN.html>
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