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REVERSE DISCRIMINATION

Sociologyindex, Sociology Books 2011

Discrimination against a privileged group in order to correct previous discrimination against a disadvantaged group. Reverse discrimination policies can find a justification on efficiency grounds.

The accusation of ‘reverse discrimination’ is often directed against those favoring equity programs or affirmative action programs.

Justice and Reverse Discrimination. 
Authors: Goldman, Alan H. - Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 08540 
Abstract: Defining reverse discrimination as hiring or admissions decisions based on normally irrelevant criteria, this book develops principles of rights, compensation, and equal opportunity applicable to the reverse discrimination issue. The introduction defines the issue and discusses deductive and inductive methodology as applied to reverse discrimination. Part Two (Awarding Positions by Competence) examines desirable positions, rejection of alternative rules, and qualifications. Part Three (Compensation and the Past) studies the principle of compensation, group liability, individual competency, and the various levels of discrimination and compensation. Part Four (Equal Opportunity and the Future) examines utility and rights, and affirmative action. Among the conclusions are: those most competent for positions acquire the rights to those positions; hiring by competence was held preferable to such alternatives as random lotteries for fulfilling positions; strong reverse discrimination is justified for such individuals according to the precept that the principle of compensation is to take precedence over further applications of the distributive rule; and preferential treatment was held unjustified when directed indiscriminately towards members of groups defined only by race or sex. An index, a selected bibliography and notes on each chapter are provided. - eric.ed.gov

Reverse Discrimination and Efficiency in Education 
GIANNI DE FRAJA, University of York (UK) - Department of Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) 
International Economic Review, Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 1009-1031, August 2005 
Abstract: This article shows that reverse discrimination policies can find a justification purely on efficiency grounds. We study the optimal provision of education when households belong to different groups, differing in the distribution of the potential to benefit from education among individuals, which is private information. The main result is that high-potential individuals from groups with relatively few high-potential individuals should receive more education than otherwise identical individuals from groups with a more favorable distribution of these benefits. - papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=758073

Locations of sex discrimination and reverse discrimination: Hong Kong University students' experiences and perceptions 
Author: Ng C.W.
Source: Equal Opportunities International, Volume 20, Number 3, 2001, pp. 1-11(11)
Abstract: Presents the results of a study of 84 first year undergraduates in Hong Kong which looked at discrimination due to gender. Considers the female students' experience in relation to home, school and work showing that the study suggests they face blatant and subtle sexist attitudes in all areas. Looks at the male perception of discrimination against women which implies that some recognize and sympathise with the issue, whilst others hint that there is a backlash against the feminist movement. Discusses the implication of the findings. - ingentaconnect.com

Racial Test Score Differences as Evidence of Reverse Discrimination: Less than Meets the Eye 
William T. Dickens & Thomas J. Kane 
Symposium: (Attempts at) Replication of The Bell Curve
Herrnstein and Murray assume that test score gaps between blacks and whites attending the same schools or in the same jobs must result from the application of different selection criteria to blacks and whites. To the contrary, we show that race-blind screening processes normally will produce large gaps between the test scores of blacks and whites. - blackwell-synergy.com

Affirmative Action, or Reverse Discrimination? 
Authors: Dansby, Ike 
Source: Journal of Intergroup Relations, v24 n3 p37-48 Fall 1996 
Abstract: Determines the impact of affirmative action programs in response to charges that they are policies of reverse discrimination. Reviewing affirmative action programs submitted by Michigan State departments, researchers determined no reverse discrimination was apparent based on low numbers of reverse discrimination complaints filed by whites. - eric.ed.gov

Lawson, Steven F. 1945- "Double Reverse Discrimination"
Reviews in American History - Volume 27, Number 3, September 1999, pp. 477-481 
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Excerpt: In their long and torturous struggle for racial equality following the end of slavery, African Americans counted the right to vote as essential to winning full freedom. Reconstruction gave newly emancipated black southerners their first opportunity to cast ballots and elect members of their own race to public office. As participants in biracial governments, they helped bring to the war-devastated South public school systems, internal improvements, and progressive state constitutions. However, their pride of accomplishment proved short-lived as Reconstruction gave way to Redemption, and by the turn of the twentieth century, white southern conservatives regained political control and disfranchised most of the African-American electorate. Nevertheless, the legacy of this pioneering suffrage experience did not die. Regaining the franchise became critical to restoring freedom and full citizenship. 
Blacks challenged their loss of voting rights in the courts but to no avail. In 1876, a year before the last Union troops withdrew from the South, the Supreme Court decided that the federal government lacked the power to protect citizens from intimidation and violence in state and local elections. 1 Two decades later, while the high tribunal in Plessy v. Ferguson upheld racial segregation, the justices also validated poll taxes and literacy tests that white southern officials implemented to disqualify blacks from voting. 2 With the ballot central to their quest for freedom, black plaintiffs did not give up on the courts. Their persistence paid off in 1944, when the Supreme Court outlawed the Democratic white primary that excluded blacks from the only meaningful election in the South. 3 This judicial triumph stimulated black voter registration, but legal rulings by themselves did not crack the wall of white supremacist resistance that arose in the 1950s to keep the black electorate from expanding.

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