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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION 5 page paper with 10 sources cited. Talks about Burt Blass from Texaco, discuess how race and genderhave something to do with getting jobs, promotions etc.etc.
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thinks about affirmative action, he thinks about the time he competed for a promotion with an equally qualified woman and the woman got the job -even though she was
about to go out on maternity leave. To him, its a question of fairness - not racism or sexism. "Instead of evening the playing field, were going
the other way," says Blass. "Maybe were making up for hundreds of years of wrongdoing, but I didnt do anything." Individuals and
organizations in America are not uniformly race- and gender-neutral. Race and gender may determine an individuals political rights, selection for employment, and access to medical care (Omi & Winant 31).
Emotional, intellectually dividing, and complicated, affirmative action - over 35 years after it entered the national lexicon in the wake of the Civil Rights Act of
1964 - has emerged as one of the nations major topics of disagreement and debate. From government set-asides to workplace preferences to race-targeted school admissions, it is under
attack both from opponents who want to abolish it and reformers who want to refocus it (Riley A0-6). Among the most telling statistics:
Nearly one in three white men in New York City - 31 percent, according to a Newsday poll - say that they or a family member hav
experienced race or gender-based reverse discrimination in the workplace or school admission. And virtually the same percentage, 30 percent, say they have seen situations in which undeserving minority-group members got
a job or promotion because of affirmative action. But even greater numbers of minorities complained about personally experiencing traditional race or gender discrimination - 44 percent of black
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