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Civil Rights
10/8/07
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Proponents of Affirmative Action
• Three goals
– Need for procedural fairness
– Need to remedy past discrimination
– Need to promote diversity
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Procedural Fairness
• Affirmative action is a protection for procedural fairness.
– Kennedy 1961: Absent AA, there will be discrimination.
– Discrimination: only in selection process.
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Past Discrimination
• Affirmative action is a remedy for the history of discrimination.
– Johnson 1965: “Scars of centuries” mean no fair competition.
– Discrimination: evident in everything because of accumulated advantage and accumulated disadvantage.
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Diversity
• Affirmative action promotes diversity.
– Grutter v. Bollinger (2003): "a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body."
– Discrimination?
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Opponents of AA
• Reverse Discrimination– Bakke (1978): Upheld AA in principle but stated that
rigid quota systems constitute reverse discrimination.
– Gratz v. Bollinger (2003): applicants must receive “individualized consideration”
– Central claims: reverse discrimination, special rights, unwarranted preferences
– Discrimination: is individual and contained in the process, not systemic and contextualized in history.