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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... discrimination of a variety of types and it is of this that conventional policies fail to take account ... indirect, institutional, often unintended, sometimes unrecognised and endemic. It is this sort of discrimination and its effects ...
... discrimination of a variety of types and it is of this that conventional policies fail to take account ... indirect, institutional, often unintended, sometimes unrecognised and endemic. It is this sort of discrimination and its effects ...
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... indirect discrimination which by definition is peculiar to minority groups (though discrimination in other forms may affect other groups in society). The first three of these (along with a number of other factors of less importance) ...
... indirect discrimination which by definition is peculiar to minority groups (though discrimination in other forms may affect other groups in society). The first three of these (along with a number of other factors of less importance) ...
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... indirect discrimination for affected groups and alleviate the greater or distinctive disadvantages that they suffer. There are, of course, a variety of ways in which (and degrees to which) both of these could be done. Any such practice ...
... indirect discrimination for affected groups and alleviate the greater or distinctive disadvantages that they suffer. There are, of course, a variety of ways in which (and degrees to which) both of these could be done. Any such practice ...
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... discrimination, both direct and indirect, intentional and unintentional, and of relative disadvantage manifested in ... discriminate against the groups. It must be groups and not individuals that will benefit. The affected groups are ...
... discrimination, both direct and indirect, intentional and unintentional, and of relative disadvantage manifested in ... discriminate against the groups. It must be groups and not individuals that will benefit. The affected groups are ...
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... discrimination. It just is not feasible to account for the relative disadvantage of ethnic minorities without some ... indirect discrimination (see Lustgarten and Edwards 1992). So far as the law is concerned (as must be the case) there ...
... discrimination. It just is not feasible to account for the relative disadvantage of ethnic minorities without some ... indirect discrimination (see Lustgarten and Edwards 1992). So far as the law is concerned (as must be the case) there ...
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 |
When Race Counts: The Morality of Racial Preference in Britain and America John Edwards Pré-visualização limitada - 1995 |
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action and preference action and preferential affirmative action plan affirmative action practice affirmative action programme apodictic applicants argued argument Asian availability beneficiaries benefit Britain business necessity cent chapter City Civil Rights Act compensation components of merit consequential contractors count disadvantage discriminatory disparate impact diversity effect employment equity Equal Employment Opportunity equal opportunities policy equality of opportunity ethnic groups Ethnic minority representation example Executive Order Executive Order 11246 Executive Order 11375 factors Fullinwider goals Griggs hiring Hispanic identified indirect discrimination job performance justice means measure merit principle minority candidate minority ethnic minority group members monitoring morally arbitrary OFCCP organisation overriding past harm personnel population positive discrimination preference practices preferential treatment promotion proportion purposes qualified quotas race-conscious practices reasons recruitment reflect remedy rights to positions staff strict scrutiny Supreme Court targets tests Title VII under-representation under-utilisation United United States Code University whilst workforce