Essays on Affirmative Action

Does Affirmative Action Work? By Graham K. Brown evaluates the efficiency of affirmative action programs keeping the focus of the programs implemented in Malaysia, India and South Africa. The article was written based on the author’s interests in research of identity, political mobilization, and inequality. The piece joins the constant...

The Issue of Setting Up Affirmative Action Programs The issue of setting up affirmative action programs is mainly generated from the fact that everyone does not have the same or equal opportunities in life. Therefore when we say that there will be a competition for opportunities, some competitors are always halfway...

Discrimination: Forms and Inequality Often discrimination takes various forms, and it may be based on either of the following; race, skin color, origin, ethnicity, religion, age, and gender among other factors. Discrimination is considered as a form of inequality as it disadvantages an individual based on either of the above grounds....

The Importance of Affirmative ActionThe assertion that all affirmative action policies foster unfair reverse discrimination is false, in my opinion. To start, discrimination, unlike affirmative action, frequently includes prejudice and stereotypes of specific populations. Discrimination is associated negatively in this way. The perpetrators of discrimination are also motivated by hatred...