Are Affirmative Action and Economic Growth Alternative Paths to Racial Equality?

1985 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 561 ◽  
Author(s):  
William E. Feinberg
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Racial Equality

“This backdrop of entrenched inequality”

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desmond S. King ◽  
Rogers M. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Racial Equality ◽  
Employment Policy ◽  
Racial Inequalities ◽  
Sort It ◽  
American Life ◽  
Racial Policy

This chapter illustrates the conflicting approaches advanced by today's racial alliances on issues of race equality in the workplace, as on so many other topics—conflicts that include disagreements not only over formal affirmative action programs but also over the legitimacy of race-conscious policymaking of any sort. It is no accident when these issues emerge with particular intensity in employment policy. No area of American life is more central to the quest to eradicate unjust material racial inequalities. This is why, as the chapter shows, previous struggles on racial equality focused so strongly on equality in the workplace. While such actions were hailed by many veterans of the civil rights movement as necessary, color-blind proponents came to assail these as new forms of unjust racial discrimination. Contestation over these policies became the central “battleground” around which modern racial policy coalitions formed.

Racially-Mixed Personal Identity Equality

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-364
Author(s):  
Tanya Katerí Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Racial Equality ◽  
Racially Mixed

A growing number of commentators view discrimination against multiracial (racially-mixed) people as a distinctive challenge to racial equality. This perspective is based on the belief that multiracial-identified persons experience racial discrimination in a manner that makes it necessary to reconsider civil rights law. This article disputes that premise and deconstructs its Personal Identity Equality approach to anti-discrimination law and demonstrates its ill effects reflected in Supreme Court affirmative action litigation.

Mecanismos de equidad racial. Comienzos de la institucionalidad afrodescendiente en Uruguay. / Mechanisms for Racial Equity. The beginning of Afro-descendant institutionalism in Uruguay.

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 53-65
Author(s):  
Mónica Olaza López
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
National Level ◽  
Discussion Groups ◽  
Racial Equality ◽  
Racial Equity ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
The Government

Desde 2005 hay un nuevo enfoque en la política del gobierno uruguayo sobre la situación de desigualdad y racismo del colectivo afrouruguayo. El gobierno creó secretarías específicas para atender cuestiones relacionadas con los afrodescendientes. Denominadas “mecanismos de equidad racial”, se encargan de coordinar y promover políticas públicas de acciones afirmativas para afrodescendientes a nivel nacional o departamental. En este trabajo se presentan resultados de investigación sobre estos mecanismos utilizando entrevistas, grupos de discusión y análisis documental. Since 2005 there has been a new approach in the Uruguayan government’s political in terms of inequality and racism towards Uruguayan Afro-descendants. The government created specific secretariats to deal with matters related to Afro-descendants. These secretariats were called “mecanismos de equidad racial (MER)” [Racial Equality Mechanisms], in charge of the coordination and promotion of affirmative action public policies for Afro-descendants, at departmental or national level. This work presents the results of research related to MERs, from interviews, discussion groups, and documentary analysis.

Mapping the Development of Health Policies for the Black Population

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kia Lilly Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Black Population ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Racial Equality ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Full Implementation ◽  
Democratic Constitution

This chapter examines the development of health policies for the black population in Brazil from 1988, a year that marked the 100th anniversary of Brazilian abolition and the promulgation of a new democratic Constitution, to the early 2010s. The analysis places the development of health policies for the black population within a larger context of race-conscious policy development, particularly in relation to the Statute of Racial Equality and affirmative action policies for higher education. As this chapter argues, political openings were created during the mid-1990s and early 2000s that facilitated the development of health policies for the black population. However, such policies were often highly contested and their full implementation was often undermined.

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