When Race Counts: The Morality of Racial Preference in Britain and AmericaRoutledge, 29/06/2005 - 272 páginas When Race Counts investigates the use of race-conscious practices in social policy in Britain and America. It questions the distinction between affirmative action and preferential treatment, and evaluates the effectiveness of a range of education and employment policies designed to counteract both unintended and direct discrimination against ethnic minorities. The book uses both empirical and moral analyses to examine the controversial dilemma of whether and in what circumstances preferential treatment may be used as a means of improving the condition of minority groups. John Edwards looks at justifications for overriding the merit principle, particularly in employment, and shows who bears the costs of such a policy, and where the benefits lie. He argues that the merit principle is in itself so flawed that to override it would cause no great damange to justice. He then sets out the requirements of an acceptable policy of minority preference tailored to the disadvantages of specific minority groups. |
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... discriminate against them. Such a diagnosis then leads to the promotion of practices designed to remove discriminatory barriers to opportunities and goods and services. Practices of this kind we call affirmative action, though 'barrier ...
... discriminate against them. Such a diagnosis then leads to the promotion of practices designed to remove discriminatory barriers to opportunities and goods and services. Practices of this kind we call affirmative action, though 'barrier ...
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... discriminatory barriers. This, however, is a very limited notion of equality of opportunity, and our purpose is better served by counting disadvantage (in whatever form) as constituent of the factors that create less than equality of ...
... discriminatory barriers. This, however, is a very limited notion of equality of opportunity, and our purpose is better served by counting disadvantage (in whatever form) as constituent of the factors that create less than equality of ...
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... discriminatory in respect of the group,' barriers to individual equality of opportunity would not be part of such practice. Alleviating disadvantages that are experi enced to a greater degree by, or are of a different kind for, an ...
... discriminatory in respect of the group,' barriers to individual equality of opportunity would not be part of such practice. Alleviating disadvantages that are experi enced to a greater degree by, or are of a different kind for, an ...
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... discriminatory barriers. It may of course be argued that at the level of group practice this is inevitable and what we are concerned with is precisely the improvement of the condition of the group as a whole. We shall have much more to ...
... discriminatory barriers. It may of course be argued that at the level of group practice this is inevitable and what we are concerned with is precisely the improvement of the condition of the group as a whole. We shall have much more to ...
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... discriminate against the groups. It must be groups and not individuals that will benefit. The affected groups are potentially many in number but, with the exception of the disabled, all will be defined or identified by criteria which ...
... discriminate against the groups. It must be groups and not individuals that will benefit. The affected groups are potentially many in number but, with the exception of the disabled, all will be defined or identified by criteria which ...
Índice
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the British experience | 47 |
the American way with affirmative action | 93 |
the United States | 123 |
Britain and America | 151 |
8 The moral dilemmas of preference | 163 |
10 Tailored preference | 211 |
A note on methodology | 221 |
Notes | 223 |
Bibliography | 231 |
US Cases cited | 240 |
Documentary sources | 241 |
Name index | 245 |
Subject index | 249 |
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When Race Counts: The Morality of Racial Preference in Britain and America John Edwards Pré-visualização limitada - 1995 |
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