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This is an annotated bibliography of resources on race, gender, and affirmative action intended for the use of faculty who are designing courses concerning race, gender, and affirmative action, and for students and browsers interested in a guide to the literature.
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The bottom line is that affirmative action (diversity) in college admissions, no matter how vociferously conservatives bash it, is good for corporate America. It is good for our institutions of higher learning. It is good for the economy.
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More than any other event or initiative, the California Civil Rights Initiative has amplified the debate -- both in California and around the nation -- surrounding affirmative action. Unfortunately, many people misconstrue affirmative action as a tool to promote and advance unqualified people based on ethnicity or gender.
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Arguments for Affirmative Action ... Web Sites With Arguments for and Against Affirmative Action ... Last updated 08/1/00...
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"I cannot in good conscience oppose affirmative action."; Press Statement from Angry White Guys for Affirmative Action in opposition to the CCRI; Published in In Motion Magazine March 5, 1996; Defending Affirmative Action;
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Affirmative action produces no concrete benefits for minority students and actually has several harmful effects, according to a new report by the Cato Institute.
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Let me say upfront that I am a fan of affirmative action. I believe that the better off in society have a responsibility to remove barriers that prevent an entire group from succeeding. I grew up As a group, they are over-represented in every bad statistic and under-represented in every good statistic measuring health,
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What I suspect is that some of Prof. Massey's conclusions -- that on balance affirmative action is good; that stereotype threat explains poor performance -- were not derived from "the numbers" in his study. This suspicion (and, not having seen the study, it is only that) doesn't mean I think he doesn't care about the truth.
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a description of good and bad things about affirmative action ... "In 1972, affirmative action became an inflammatory public issue. True enough, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 already had made something called "affirmative action" a remedy federal courts could impose on violators of the Act.
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