Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action Fact: In The Chronicle of Higher Education survey, 58% of the respondents felt affirmative action benefitted society. Sixty-four percent of them did not think minority students with grades and test scores that "didn't meet the level of other applicants" should be admitted over those applicants.

U.S. Government -- Debating Racial Preference - This site has a wealth of material and links; including articles and reports for and against Affirmative Action, Grutter v. Bollinger, the opinions of the Justices (O'Connor, Thomas, Rehnquist, and Souter), Landmark Supreme Court Cases, essays, "Books Worth Reading", and more.

American Association for Affirmative Action - They offer Alerts & News, Training, membership, Awards, and Resources (links to "Federal Laws and Regulations", "Federal Enforcement Agencies", "Courts and Legal Opinions", and "Other Civil Rights Organization".)

MIT and Affirmative Action - The article "Gender Affirmation: MIT Still Uninformed on Affirmative Action" by Anders Howe describes how aggressive recruiting of women and minorities is another form of affirmative action.

ABQJournal -- Affirmative Action Pro/Con - Recent high school graduate, A.J. Chavez, understands the Pros of Affirmative Action, but he has also seen the Cons of it. This article shows Affirmative action from a young minority member's viewpoint.

American Council on Education - This organization provides many links under categories like "Answering the Critics", "Legal Issues", "Threats to Affirmative Action", "Affirmative Action Works", "What You Can Do." For example, under the "Answering the Critics" section you will find the link to "Countering Arguments

Against Affirmative Action - This site describes President Kennedy's Executive Order 10952 and Johnson's Executive Order 11246 and has four links to topics like "Affirmative Action Backlash" and "Five Protected Categories."

DiversityBlows.com - The owners of this site argue that affirmative action "is now a vestigial organ of policy which provides for quotas and a racial agenda." You can link to other news articles, The Center for Individual Rights, and "Arguments Against Affirmative Action."

Center for Equal Opportunity - Browse through the news article links. Under "Recent projects" you will see such information as "CEO Files Complaint Against Rice University", "Analyzing the Grutter Case", and "Preferences at the Service Academies."

American Civil Rights Institute - Created "to educate the public about racial and gender preferences", this civil rights organization offers information about civil rights legislation, ACRI News, speeches, book reviews, membership, and solicitations for contributions.

Capitalism Magazine - In his article titled "'Affirmative Action' Quotas on Trial" Thomas Sowell debunks some pro affirmative action myths such as affirmative action has taken Blacks out of poverty. To Sowell, a quota by any other name is a quota.

Quotas and Colin Powell - In this interesting December 14, 1997 article by Franklin Foer, we learn how Colin Powell got promoted to the position of brigadier general.

Ethnic Majority.com - In the section titled "Affirmative Action for African, Latino, and Asian Americans" the author distinguishes between affirmative action and quotas.

Affirmative Action vs a quota system - This "The Long FAQ on Liberalism" website has many links featuring Liberal arguments. One link covers the difference between quotas and Affirmative Action.

Adversity Net - Here is a site for those who oppose Affirmative Action and think it is the same thing as a Quota system.

Chinese for Affirmative Action - This organization gives up to date information on the Affirmative Action front. They were one of the organizations that helped in Proposition 54's defeat.

Latinos and Affirmative Action - In this 1997 El Futura Newsletter article the author deals with affirmative action and the education of young Latinos.

BAMN and Ward Connerly - Visting this site, you will see black and white solidarity on affirmative action. This organization can be seen on college campuses around the country.

NAACP - This NAACP site provides links to various Civil Rights issues and organizations.

Feminist Majority Foundation - Explains Affirmative Action, the “Legal Origins of Affirmative Action for Women in Employment (and) Education”, Affirmative Action and the Supreme Court.

Bakke and Beyond - This article describes the policy which was introduced by President Johnson. Each date gives information on the event along with links to relevant sites. Look out for the many pop ups!

A History of Affirmative Action in the U.S. - This site goes back to a time when Blacks did not have certain rights. The first link is to the 13th Amendment (the abolishment of involuntary servitude). Other links are to the 14th and 15th Amendments, Executive Order 11246, EEP Laws and Regulations, and more.

BBC News Article - Here is a foreign perspective of affirmative action titled "Affirmative Action: History of Controversy" by Richard Allen Greene. They also have links to other articles on the site.

Laws - You will find descriptions of the Fourteenth Amendment, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII, Title IX, and Executive Order 11246.

History and Rationale - This Clinton White House Staff written paper begins with the history of the discriminatiion of "qualified" Blacks and shows the methods to remedy this problem.

Office of Affirmative Action -- U of Iowa - In the University's Questions and Answers section they discuss such things as "The difference between affirmative action and equal employment opportunity" and "Does affirmative action mean different stands for white males versus everyone else?"

Affirmative Action Register and jobs - This online publication is aimed at "females, minorities, veterans, and disabled persons as well as to all employment candidates." The latest issue (September 20 to October 20, 2003) has links to employers, states, and job positions.

NOW - This organization has many articles on Affirmative Action. The last article is in April 2003. In a January 16 article, Kim Gandy is quoted as saying that President Bush's score was much lower than hundreds of other students who did not get into Yale and yet he benefited from preferences.

Affirmative Action in Other Countries - In this article Pueng Vongs says that much can be learned from the diversity struggles in countries such as Malaysia, India, Brazil, and South Africa. This is a very interesting article.

Affirmative Action and Diversity - This "Project" seeks to "help lend many different voices to the debates surrounding the issues of affirmative action." There is a wealth of links in the sections "Individual versus Group Rights", "Culture and Affirmative Action", and "Economics of Affirmative Action" - to name a few.

DiversityInc - If you register at this site, you get their newsletter, a daily factoid sheet and article. Diversity News is an up to date publication and there is a good number of links featuring events, forums, "hot topics", "Top 50 Companies", and employers looking to diversify.

Homework Help - This is a good website for students working on an Affirmative Action assignment. It has General, Support, Oppose, and Law categories. Under these sections are links to sites which give the student a clear understanding of the affirmative action debate. Beware of the pop ups!

Teaching Resource Page on Affirmative Action - This site has a huge amount of material for teachers with Affirmative Action in their lesson plans. One of the many links is "The Glass Ceiling Commission" with reports on "invisible barriers to the advancement of women and other disadvantaged groups in employment."

Affirmative Action at Questia's Online Library - If you want to get information, research, or write a research paper on Affirmative Action for school, Questia is the place. They have over 7700 books, newspaper and journal articles, and Encyclopedia articles on the subject. You do have to subscribe but it is worth the effort.

C-Span - Listen to a Supreme Court oral argument of the University of Michigan Affirmative Action case.