Affirmative Action, or Reverse Discrimination?.

Dansby, Ike

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ERIC Number: EJ540378

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1996

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Affirmative Action, or Reverse Discrimination?

Dansby, Ike

Journal of Intergroup Relations, v24 n3 p37-48 Fall 1996

Determines the impact of affirmative action programs in response to charges that they are policies of reverse discrimination. Reviewing affirmative action programs submitted by Michigan State departments, researchers determined no reverse discrimination was apparent based on low numbers of reverse discrimination complaints filed by whites. (GR)

Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Blacks, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Federal Legislation, Minority Groups, Quotas, Racial Discrimination, Reverse Discrimination, Social Science Research, Whites

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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