{"id":270,"date":"2014-04-24T17:12:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T17:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/?p=270"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:07:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:07:33","slug":"affirmative-action-and-racial-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2014\/04\/24\/affirmative-action-and-racial-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Affirmative Action and Racial Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/04\/22\/305960143\/high-court-upholds-michigans-affirmative-action-ban\">Supreme Court decision to uphold Michigan\u2019s ban on affirmative action<\/a> in college and university admissions stirred up a lot of legal controversy, and will likely lead to more court cases about these policies in other states. In the wake of conversations about constitutionality, however, it is often easy to miss the problems that affirmative action is meant to be correcting.<\/p>\n<h5>Racial inequality, especially in the workplace, is very real. Employers regularly make decisions based on race which clash with existing civil rights law.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.ucsd.edu\/~jskrentny\/\">John D. Skrentny<\/a>. 2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/10095.html\"><i>After Civil Rights: Racial Realism in the New American Workplace. <\/i><\/a>Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Most Americans tend to think of diversity in very general, open and optimistic terms, but this \u201chappy talk\u201d often makes it difficult to directly address underlying racial attitudes\u2014and the inequalities they produce\u2014with policy changes.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociology.pitt.edu\/faculty\/?q=joyce-bell\/view\">\u00a0Joyce Bell<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.umn.edu\/people\/hartmann_d.html\">Douglas Hartmann<\/a>. 2007. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/files\/2013\/03\/Diversity-in-Everyday-Discou1.pdf\">Diversity in Everyday Discourse: The Cultural Ambiguities and Consequences of \u2018Happy Talk.<\/a>\u2019\u201d <i>American Sociological Review <\/i>72(6): 895-914<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><!-- TSP testing --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 234px; height: 60px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4670099812817063\" data-ad-slot=\"1069646635\"><\/ins><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2638\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2014\/03\/Picture-2-330x38.png\" alt=\"Picture 2\" width=\"330\" height=\"38\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Supreme Court decision to uphold Michigan\u2019s ban on affirmative action in college and university admissions stirred up a lot of legal controversy, and will likely lead to more court cases about these policies in other states. 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