Backfire: A Reporter's Look at Affirmative Action

Robert Zelnick

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Regnery Publishing Inc, 1996

0895264552 / 9780895264558

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In this urgently important book, Zelnick looks past the good intentions to how affirmative action really works in such areas as voting rights, employment, minority set-asides, mortgage and insurance regulation, and education. Buttressing his case with the latest research data and scores of real-life examples, Zelnick shows overwhelmingly that affirmative action: favors the less qualified over the more qualified; endangers public safety in such areas as crime and fire prevention, and even medical care; has made it all but impossible for business and government to use objective merit selection criteria in hiring and promotion; brings few benefits to those most in need of help, and benefits mostly those who don't need it; distracts from - and even exacerbates the real causes of misery among inner city blacks; has developed powerful constituencies in business and government; has been broadened for political purposes to include beneficiaries who want relief but lack the historical claim of blacks; legitimizes negative stigmas about minorities and pandering to the darker instincts of racial animosity; and as an ideology has proven immune to conclusive evidence that it is counterproductive. Zelnick traces how affirmative action was first sold as a short-term program designed to expand employer awareness of qualified minority job applicants, but instead has become a coercive network of race-conscious laws, regulations, quotas, preferences, and entitlement programs - in short, an assault on the very value of equality of opportunity it was supposed to promote. Zelnick also shows how affirmative action is increasingly being challenged in the courts and political arena. He concludes with anin-depth, behind the-scenes report on the affirmative action battles now raging in California, whose outcomes will have major consequences nationwide, and for years to come.…

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Titre
Backfire: A Reporter's Look at Affirmative Action
Auteur
Robert Zelnick
Éditeur
Regnery Publishing Inc
Année de publication
1996
État de l'article
Fair
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Hardback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0895264552
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780895264558

World of Books Inc

Montgomery, IL, Etats-Unis

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