Affirmative Action in Perspective

✍ Scribed by Fletcher A. Blanchard, Faye J. Crosby (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 211
• Series: Recent Research in Psychology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Racism and sexism remain prevalent in societies today. Based on this proven premise, the authors of Affirmative Action inPerspective maintain that a policy of equal opportunity as practiced in America is not a feasible, realistic solution to the "legacy of racial and sexual discrimination". Drs. Blanchard and Crosby have edited a volume which clearly displays their conviction that affirmative action as a policy has the potential to establish a society more equitable than the society we know now. Distinguished contributors to this volume discuss the policy from a level of definition to actual case studies and further, to the theoretical examination of the justice of affirmative action. Throughout the book the urgency of questioning current policies is evident; so too is the need for basic understanding of the realities of injustice which draw the line between the advantaged and the disadvantaged.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction: Affirmative Action and the Question of Standards....Pages 3-7
What Is Affirmative Action?....Pages 9-19
Affirmative Action and Presidential Executive Orders....Pages 21-29
Affirmative Action and the Courts....Pages 31-49
Employment Screening, Qualifications, and Gender Discrimination: A Case Study of the New York City Firefighters....Pages 51-63
Women In Federal Government Employment....Pages 65-80
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Resistance to Affirmative Action: The Implications of Aversive Racism....Pages 83-102
Affirmative Action and Self-Evaluation....Pages 103-109
Who Likes Affirmative Action: Attitudinal Processes Among Men and Women....Pages 111-124
Administrators’ Perceptions of Affirmative Action in Higher Education....Pages 125-138
Reactions to Affirmative Action: A Case Study....Pages 139-146
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Labor Market Discrimination in the United States....Pages 149-158
Affirmative Action and Aggregate Data: The Importance of Patterns in the Perception of Discrimination....Pages 159-167
Affirmative Action and the Challenge of the Color-blind Perspective....Pages 169-176
The Justice of Affirmative Action....Pages 177-192
Effective Affirmative Action Programs....Pages 193-208
Back Matter....Pages 209-211

✦ Subjects

Personality and Social Psychology; Sociology, general