• 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 Youhui zhengce (simplified Chinese:...
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  • Reservation is a system of affirmative action in India created during the British rule. It provides historically disadvantaged groups representation in...
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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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    Diversity, equity, and inclusion (category Affirmative action)
    philosophical grounds. 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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  • 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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  • (non-negated) sentence or clause Affirmative (policy debate), the team which affirms the resolution Affirmative action Affirmation (disambiguation) This...
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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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  • 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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  • remedial efforts aimed at overcoming such discrimination, such as affirmative action. The theory behind racial color blindness is that a person should...
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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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    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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  • 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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    Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which held that race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions processes violate the Equal Protection...
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    2020 California Proposition 16 (category History of affirmative action in the United States)
    Therefore, Proposition 209 banned the use of race- and gender-based affirmative action in California's public sector. The legislatively referred state constitutional...
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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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    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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  • The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights, and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary, commonly shortened to By Any...
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    Goa. 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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    were not offered until 1900. In 2003, two lawsuits involving U-M'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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  • 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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  • Court of the United States in which the court held that race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions processes violate the Equal Protection...
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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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    ballot proposal in California that would have removed the ban on affirmative action programs in the state's public sector. Bass voted for the proposed...
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  • issues in the US. They critiqued "liberal jurisprudence", including affirmative action, color-blindness, role modeling, and the merit principle. Specifically...
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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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  • 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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    Court upheld the legality of affirmative action and the Mandal Commission (a report that recommended that affirmative action not only apply to the Untouchables...
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