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Appointment of Arab prefect fans French angst over affirmative action
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International Herald Tribune
01-15-2004
Has Aissa Dermouche been given the job of prefect of the Jura region near the Swiss border because of affirmative action or because he is the best candidate for the job? The appointment Wednesday of the 57-year-old Algerian-born business school director makes him the only prefect who is foreign-born or Muslim in all of France. But it was announced without fanfare along with others at the weekly Council of Ministers meeting. After ...
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Affirmative Action: coming soon to a nation near you!
Male View
; ... appropriate, but there will be only small token examples of this. Finally, throughout it all, the path will be smoothed by endless news items about the woes of working womanhood. The timescale for this is the next 15 years. Ordinary men and women may need to defend ...
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The colour of success: a qualitative study of affirmative action attitudes of black academics in South Africa.(Essay)
Transformation
; ... support for both government expenditures to help blacks and preferential treatment in favour of blacks'. A poll conducted by CBS News/New York Times in 1997 indicated that 77 per cent of black Americans, compared to 32 per cent of whites, felt that it is crucial ...
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White students' perceptions of affirmative action in graduate admission: Directions for programming and college personnel development
Journal of College Admission
; Abstract While the role and importance of affirmative action continues to be debated, researchers have found that individuals evaluate affirmative action policies differently. However, few studies have examined how prospective graduate students view affirmative action policies in graduate school
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And justice for all.(affirmative action)
The Nation
; ... benefits those who have been previously excluded or oppressed may be what bothers them about the policy. But I doubt any of this is news in 2005. At the close of her book, Crosby proposes experiments that test people's support for affirmative action relative to ...
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Affirmative action, negative effect
The Independent - London
; Tony Blair's decision to scrap all-women shortlists will probably be greeted with annoyance by many women, further proof that if they (or indeed any oppressed minority) don't keep up the shouting, every meagre gain will be taken away. Many will see it as predictable backsliding, a sign that New
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Affirmative action, yes
The Boston Globe
; Affirmative action -- the granting of racial, ethnic and gender preferences in the job market, public contracting, housing, congressional districting, college admissions and anything else in American life -- is coming under assault after 30 years of general, if grudging, acceptance. "You can't
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France rejects quotas based on race Only a minority of politicians back 'positive discrimination'
International Herald Tribune
; Thomas Fuller International Herald Tribune 11-17-2005 With the police declaring a ''nearly normal'' situation in France's housing projects, where does the country go from here?To hear it from Gerard Larcher, deputy minister for employment, France needs to be mindful of its history. Calls for
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The Aim of Affirmative Action.
Social Theory and Practice
; In this paper I propose and work out some of the implications of a particular way of understanding the aim of affirmative action. We who support affirmative action have not always sufficiently spelled out the grounds for our support; I therefore hope that my proposal will contribute to the debate
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Thinking about affirmative action: arguments supporting preferential policies.
The Review of Policy Research
; Affirmative action is one of the most contentious issues in the forum of public opinion. In the triumphal days of the modern Civil Rights Movement, when the stark and brutal history of racial bigotry was fresh in peoples' minds, the first affirmative action policies in public employment and
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WHAT DOES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION DO?(Statistical Data Included)
Industrial and Labor Relations Review
; DAVID NEUMARK The authors use data from a survey of employers to investigate how Affirmative Action in recruiting and hiring influences hiring practices, personnel policies, and ultimately employment outcomes. They find that Affirmative Action increases the number of recruitment and screening
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