By Maxine Waters (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) ...This [California anti-affirmative action] initiative is a product of a climate that has nothing to do with affirmative action per se. Unemployment is still high in California. Many manufacturing jobs have fled to Third World countries in search of cheap labor. We've been buffeted by fires and floods and … [Read more...] about “Scapegoating” by Maxine Waters (May-June 1995 P&R Issue)
“Affirmative Action: The Army’s Success…” by Charles Moskos (May-June 1995 P&R Issue)
By Charles Moskos (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) ... There is an institution where affirmative action works and works well-the U.S. Army. Not that the Army is a racial Utopia by any means. But nowhere else in American society has racial integration gone as far or has black achievement been so pronounced. Indeed, the Army is the only institution in America … [Read more...] about “Affirmative Action: The Army’s Success…” by Charles Moskos (May-June 1995 P&R Issue)
“Affirmative Action: The Questions To Be Asked” by William L. Taylor (May-June 1995 P&R Issue)
By William L. Taylor (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) ... The questions to be asked include the following: Has affirmative action worked? Is affirmative action still needed? Is affirmative action unfair to others; does it undermine the merit principle? Are the social costs of affirmative action too high? What would be the cost to society of abandoning … [Read more...] about “Affirmative Action: The Questions To Be Asked” by William L. Taylor (May-June 1995 P&R Issue)
“Racism Has Its Privileges” by Roger Wilkins (May-June 1995 P&R Issue)
By Roger Wilkins (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) ...Affirmative action, as I understand it, was not designed to punish anyone; it was, rather-as a result of a clear-eyed look at how America actually works-an attempt to enlarge opportunity for everybody. As amply documented in the 1968 Kerner Commission report on racial disorders, when left to their own devices, … [Read more...] about “Racism Has Its Privileges” by Roger Wilkins (May-June 1995 P&R Issue)
Symposium: Affirmative Action Roundtable (May-June 1995 P&R Issue)
(Click here to view the entire P&R issue) The focus of this May/June issue of P&R is affirmative action. The news is far from good, as we all know. Rather than our usual practice of commissioning commentaries, we opted for excerpting already published pieces, since so much good writing has recently appeared on our side of the issue. May/June 1995 issue of Poverty … [Read more...] about Symposium: Affirmative Action Roundtable (May-June 1995 P&R Issue)
