Sentences with phrase «racial preference policies»

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Thomas J. Kane and William T. Dickens «Racial and Ethnic Preference in College Admissions» Brookings Institution Policy Brief No. 9, (November, 1996).

Texas created the policy in 1997 after a federal appellate court ruled, in Hopwood v. Texas, that the state's previous affirmative - action system based on racial preferences was unconstitutional.

His research centers on several main issues: (1) the implications of religion and spirituality for mental and physical health and mortality risk; (2) religious variations in family life, with particular attention to intimate relationships and childrearing; (3) the role of religious institutions, practices, and values among racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States; (4) the influence of religious factors on political attitudes and policy preferences; and (5) public opinion surrounding issues of race, ethnicity, and immigration in the contemporary United States.