Deconstructing the Affirmative Action Categories

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dc.contributor.authorLa Noue, George R.
dc.contributor.authorSullivan, John C.
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-07T16:05:18Z
dc.date.available2021-01-07T16:05:18Z
dc.date.issued1998-04-01
dc.description.abstractAffirmative action preferences have traditionally benefited four racial and ethnic group categories: African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and Native Americans. These categories may be overinclusive, masking important socioeconomic differences among nationalities within the categories. The problem of overinclusiveness is now being raised by post-Croson disparity studies and by courts evaluating those studies, particularly in the area of business formation rates. When the differences among nationalities are compared through census data and regression analysis, they show wide variations within the affirmative action categories and for White ethnic groups as well. This suggest that a discrimination hypothesis cannot explain all these variations. The affirmative action categories reflect bureaucratic convenience more than demographic realities.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002764298041007005en_US
dc.format.extent14 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2lmiu-1i0m
dc.identifier.citationGEORGE R. LA NOUE and JOHN C. SULLIVAN, Deconstructing the Affirmative Action Categories, American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 41, No. 7, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764298041007005en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/0002764298041007005
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/20357
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSAGEen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Political Science
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Faculty Collection
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC School of Public Policy
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Physics Department
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dc.subjectracial and ethnic categoriesen_US
dc.subjectdiscriminationen_US
dc.subjectbureaucracyen_US
dc.subjectfederal affirmative action programsen_US
dc.titleDeconstructing the Affirmative Action Categoriesen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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