A Civil Action

movement sparks debates among all Americans, among all races, among all religions, and among all political parties. The current Black Lives Matter Movement, although influential among the African American community, cannot be considered the modern-day Civil Rights Movement because the movement uses violent tactics to achieve its goals, promotes false accusations about American law enforcement, and does not advocate for equality among all American citizens. Initially, the Black Lives Matter…

1. Discuss the definition, terms and history of diversity. 2. Categorize the different groups of diversity. 3. Explain the meaning of stereotypes and biases. 4. Recognize strategies for removing barriers. 5. Identify ways to encourage diversity in the workplace. 6. Assess the Impact of Diversity in the Workplace. 7. Identify steps to discourage and prevent Discrimination in the Workplace 8. Recognize Workplace Rights . Understanding Diversity What is Diversity? • Diversity is…

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS RACE BASED PREFERENCE One of the most controversial topics in higher education concerns affirmative action. It has been a subject of endless debates among those who are pro affirmative action or against it. Citing the positive and negative effects of this policy. But what is affirmative action? The term affirmative action means ensuring opportunities and access in areas of education and employment to minority groups and or disadvantaged race. This term was first…

any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” ( Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Section 703). This quote is…

Race is a social invention. Past attempts to classify race on a biological/genetic base have not been proved by any scientific research. The concept is a pervasive historical root of social inequalities, persistent today (Bonavilla-Silva, p. 131.) Agency is not effective in remedying inequality because of the stubborn denial, by white people, of the reality of discrimination in the name of race supremacy. Although there is no consensus on what race is (Manza 2013, p.240) it has an important…

In 1961 President John F. Kennedy introduced affirmative action as a response to the various struggles and setbacks faced by minority groups. For decades following the Civil War, the rights of African-Americans were blatantly disrespected and ignored. Discrimination against African-Americans and other minority groups prevented them from achieving the same level of success as their white counterparts. Even though they possessed strong dedication and willpower, minorities were still unable to…

Affirmative action policies are policies in which an institution or organization actively engages in multiple efforts to improve opportunities for historically marginalized and excluded groups in America (Pojman, 1998). These policies focus on both employment and education. In institutions of higher education, affirmative action refers to admission and recruitment policies that provide equal and equitable access to education for those groups that have been excluded or underrepresented, such as…

information. This means that those with records will have the same chance as any other applicant. A state ban the box law is on its way. Nearly 200 worker advocacy groups and labor unions recently sent a letter to President Obama urging executive action for the removal of the box on job application all over the country (CITE?). One of the nation’s largest retailers Wal-Mart adopted a personal company policy to ban the box in…

Affirmative action is a set of policies that often makes employment decisions a way to preventing further discrimination. A negative policy, this prevents further discrimination by making initial employment decisions blind in terms of race and gender. There are four main reasons that people and companies wish to preserve affirmative action programs. One is that these programs distribute society’s benefits and burdens; jobs are not distributed justly because they are not distributed according to…

redress historical discriminations, affirmative action has, inherently, built reverse discrimination against Asian and white males. Due to a limited number of accepted applicants in high-level institutions, the preference that affirmative action gives to minorities have had dramatic effects in the acceptance rates based on race, with the Asians and whites face much harder competition amongst themselves. Consequently, as Ron Unz points out, affirmative action serves as quotas on Asian…