Affirmative Action

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If people you know are still in search of a summer job and feel completely out of options, offer to help them improve their job...
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Dred Scott vs. Sandford (1857). During slavery, Sandford claimed to own Scott, even though the two lived in a free state. The U.S...
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Although many Americans come from various racial and ethnic backgrounds, the U.S. census only started recording the number of...
Affirmative action has been both praised and denounced as an answer to racial inequality. The term "affirmative action" was...
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Eliminating affirmative action leads to the re-segregation of higher education. When affirmative action was outlawed at the...
Adverse Impact When a selection process for a particular job or group of jobs results in the selection of members of any racial...
Adverse (or Disparate) Impact a term used to describe a substantially different rate of selection in hiring, promotion, transfer...