Essays on Reverse Discrimination

The affirmative action program consists in give advantages in education, employment or access to population groups that historically had been a minority, with disabilities or disadvantages against the considered population majority. One of the origins of the affirmative action was the "40 acres and a mule" program proposed by General William Tecumseh Sherman to benefit to the black color population of the state of Georgia (United States of America) after the United States Civil War. Today there are several examples of positive discrimination in education, employment, and elected officials. In India, the Universities apply a positive discrimination with a ...

The case of Fisher v. University of Texas is a 2008 case involving a Caucasian by the name of Abigail Fischer and the University of Texas from the description in Chicago-Kent college of Law. She believed that her admission to the institution was compromised because of her race since preference was given to minority students who were underqualified. The case was based on the claim of reverse discrimination. According to Fischer’s argument, necessity emerges as a vital component in the examination of the constitutionality of affirmative action plans (Nelson 530). Ideally, an important aspect that comes up in ...

Introduction

Louis Pojman, in his article The Case Against Affirmative Action, argues that there is a major difference between 'weak' affirmative action and 'strong' affirmative action, and such difference deserves a thorough analysis. Pojman asserts that weak affirmative action is primarily intended to eliminate unjust impediments to equality of opportunity. On the other hand, strong affirmative action requires more vigorous, involved measures to eradicate the consequences of forgotten injustice, and may involve preferential treatment of minority groups (Pojman 97). Pojman has nothing against weak affirmative action, but he is highly critical of strong affirmative action. Hence the main thesis of ...

Race can be seen as how people are taken in respect to any particular social group as well as their differences as noticed from the visual point. As compared to the earlier days, racial issues are less burning in the context of the present-day society amongst American people. Basically, in the contemporary society, a number of racial equality measures have been undertaken in order to make sure that all the people in the United States are resolved as within the single nation ("A Growing Divide on Race"). Introduced as a tool in the fight against racial, ethnic and gender ...

Louis Pojman, in his article The Case Against Affirmative Action, argues that there is a major difference between 'weak' affirmative action and 'strong' affirmative action, and such difference deserves a thorough analysis. Pojman asserts that weak affirmative action is primarily intended to eliminate unjust impediments to equality of opportunity. On the other hand, strong affirmative action requires more vigorous, involved measures to eradicate the consequences of forgotten injustice, and may involve preferential treatment of minority groups (Pojman 97). Pojman has nothing against weak affirmative action, but he is highly critical of strong affirmative action. Hence the main thesis of ...