• Affirmative action (also sometimes called reservations, alternative access, positive discrimination or positive action in various countries' laws and policies)...
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    In the United States, affirmative action consists of government-mandated, government-approved, and voluntary private programs granting special consideration...
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  • In the People's Republic of China, the government had instated affirmative action policies for ethnic minorities called preferential policy (simplified...
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  • An affirmative action bake sale is a type of campus protest event used by student groups to performatively criticize affirmative action policies by charging...
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  • Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study is a 2004 nonfiction work by economist Thomas Sowell. Already known as a critic of affirmative...
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    Diversity, equity, and inclusion (category Affirmative action)
    United States. DEI policy emerged from Affirmative Action in the United States. The legal term "affirmative action" was first used in "Executive Order No...
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  • Libertarian perspectives on affirmative action consistently coincide with the way that libertarians view the state as a coercive power. Many libertarians...
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  • Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) is a San Francisco–based advocacy organization. Founded in 1969, its initial goals were equality of access to employment...
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  • (non-negated) sentence or clause Affirmative (policy debate), the team which affirms the resolution Affirmative action Affirmation (disambiguation) This...
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  • Affirmative action refers to activities or policies that seek to help groups that are often affected by discrimination obtain equal access to opportunities...
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  • Reservation is a system of affirmative action in India created during the British rule. Based on provisions in the Indian Constitution, it allows the Union...
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    Rejects Affirmative Action Programs at Harvard and U.N.C." The New York Times. Wang, Amy (June 29, 2023). "Jackson's dissent decries affirmative action decision...
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    Michigan Law School's affirmative action admissions policy, Ginsburg noted there was accord between the notion that affirmative action admissions policies...
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  • ballot initiative abolishing affirmative action in California universities. This closed down the avenues affirmative action initiatives had opened for minorities...
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    and the establishment of the British Raj. It is today the basis of affirmative action programmes in India as enforced through its constitution. The caste...
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  • Court of the United States in which the court held that race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions processes (excepting military academies)...
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    Maharashtra. This provides them with certain rights under India's scheme of affirmative action, such as reservation of positions in government employment and admission...
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    euphemisms in order to earn greater social acceptance of the procedure. Affirmative action, meaning a preference for minorities or the historically disadvantaged...
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  • citizens are entitled to affirmative action in civil service employment. Arab-Israeli citizens are entitled to affirmative action in university and college...
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    Preston Robert Tisch. In 2003, two lawsuits involving the university's affirmative action admissions policy reached the U.S. Supreme Court: Grutter v. Bollinger...
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  • Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (category United States affirmative action case law)
    opportunities for whites without violating the Constitution. It upheld affirmative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy...
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    historical record shows quite the opposite. In Affirmative Action Around the World, Sowell holds that affirmative action affects more groups than is commonly understood...
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    approach to "race and gender preferences" in affirmative action policies. She described affirmative action as being "still needed," but she does not support...
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  • Reverse racism (category Opposition to affirmative action)
    sometimes referred to as reverse discrimination, is the concept that affirmative action and similar color-conscious programs for redressing racial inequality...
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    during her senatorial campaign. Harris opposed California's ban on affirmative action and filed an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court case Fisher...
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  • Reverse discrimination (category Affirmative action)
    favor of members of a minority or historically disadvantaged group. Affirmative action is a set of practices that attempts to promote diversity in areas...
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  • education sectors, the Education Minister of Israel announced an affirmative action policy which promised that Arabs would be granted 25% of the education...
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  • In these affirmative action cases, the Supreme Court has employed, or has said it employed, strict scrutiny, since the affirmative action policies challenged...
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  • Coate–Loury model (category Affirmative action)
    The Coate–Loury model of affirmative action was developed by Stephen Coate and Glenn Loury in 1993. The model seeks to answer the question of whether,...
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    Woolworths Holdings Limited is a South African multinational retail company that owns Woolworths, a South African luxury department store chain, and Australian...
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