Volume 30, Number 4 · March 17, 1983
Special Treatment for Blacks?
By Christopher Jencks
Ethnic America
by Thomas Sowell
Basic Books, 353 pp., $9.50 (paper)
Markets and Minorities
by Thomas Sowell
Basic Books, 141 pp., $6.00 (paper)
Have the government's attempts to stop discrimination through 'affirmative action' been a help or a hindrance to blacks? What is in question here is Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which outlawed all forms of employer discrimination against blacks and other minorities, and Executive Orders 11246 and 11375, which required federal contractors to establish 'affirmative action' plans for complying with Title VII. Since most large American firms do some business with the government, most now have affirmative action plans monitored by the federal government.
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