Sentences with phrase «view of affirmative action»

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Isn't «someone else's point of view» the essence of affirmative action in education?

In elaborating this view, Amato offers perceptive treatments of such contemporary phenomena as the counterculture, affirmative action, the escalating reactions to the chauvinisms of race, class, and sex, and the continuing threat of the Nietzschean denigration of the past.

Indeed, many whites and blacks view existing social programs and political attempts to redress past injustices, including programs like affirmative action, as a form of reparations.

Reasoning that elite colleges tend to espouse relatively progressive views and that their students — having gained entree to the world's most prized institutions — would presumably have little reason to resent affirmative action, she decided this sample would provide insights into «the best - case scenario in terms of support for racial inclusion...»

Remarkably, in some of the most high - profile cases the court ever heard — namely, cases involving race - based affirmative action — Scalia never offered an originalist defense of his views.

They believe that tackling deep racial inequities is the measure of one's commitment to educational improvement, and view measures like the DREAM Act and affirmative action as inseparable from elements of that work.

View University of Missouri — Kansas City Affirmative Action / Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

Reflecting on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., Dyson explores King's little - known or forgotten views: his support of the concepts of affirmative action and democratic socialism and his cynicism about white Americans.

Affirmative action, from my point of view has caused jobs being given to unqualified people sometimes and has caused resentment instead of understanding.

For the reasons stated by JUSTICE SOUTER, and in view of the attention the political branches are currently giving the matter of affirmative action, I see no compelling cause for the intervention the Court has made in this case.