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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of affirmative action. Pros and cons are discussed. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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workplace reforms such as the Americans with Disabilities Act. However, not all such measures are met with universally positive regard. For instance, affirmative action legislation continues to be one of
the most controversial of all such forms of legislation, even decades after its institution. As the United States enters the 21st century, culture is being more integrated in some senses,
and more caustically divisive in others. The changing nature of culture, however, makes it necessary to review such policies to determine whether or not they are truly effective at accomplishing
their agenda of increasing equality and liberty for all. This paragraph helps the student introduce the concept of affirmative action and explore how its been applied most frequently in the
scope of American politics. Affirmative action, in the most broad sense, is defined as "any measure that allocates resources... through a process that takes into account individual membership in underrepresented
groups" (Sabbagh, 2011). This may include not just material resources but abstract and intangible resources as well, such as admissions to schools and universities, contracts, access to jobs, access to
bank loans, and access to land and land usage rights (Sabbagh, 2011). For instance, business hiring quotas which mandate the hiring of some quota of minorities is one form of
affirmative action. Another form might be the privileged granting of small business loans to minority borrowers, due to their underrepresentation in such matters. However, there are real concerns about whether
affirmative action is truly in the interest of social equality or whether it simply creates a new set of unfair conditions skewed in a different direction. According to some writers
on the topic, while "traditional welfare policies [are] grounded in distributional equity, affirmative action takes its moral force from a corrective justice ideal" (Sabbagh, 2011). This being the case, the
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