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De Facto Discrimination; Foreigners who are HIV-positive still can’t enter the United States
The Washington Post September 26, 2008 IN LATE JULY , Congress ended a ban on HIV-positive foreigners visiting the United States or migrating here. Two months later , those with HIV/AIDS still can’t enter the country. The holdup? Passage of the bill didn’t remove the ban in practice. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) s…
Racism without Racists
The International Herald Tribune Nicholas D. Kristof October 7, 2008 One of the fallacies America’s election season is that if Barack Obama paying an electoral price for his skin tone , it must be because of racists. On the contrary , the evidence is that Obama is facing what scholars have dubbed ”racism without racists.” …
McCain Panders to Stereotypes and Fear
United States Chicago Sun Times August 14, 2008 By Anna Quindlen, Special to The Chicago Sun-Times Much of America’s political conversation is couched in code. And so it was that recently John McCain’s campaign accused Barack Obama of playing the "race card," two four-letter words that, taken together, trail a wealth of innuendo like a…
3 States to Consider Affirmative Action Ban
United States The Associated Press State & Local Wire August 6, 2008 By Chris Kahn With one brief criticism of affirmative action, John McCain has brought new attention to ballot issues aimed at dismantling preferential treatment programs for women and minorities. The question is whether McCain’s support for one of those initiatives, in …
Obama’s Trip Spurs Debate Over Minority Politicians in Western Europe
Knight Ridder Washington Bureau Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune News Service July 24, 2008 By Julie Sell and Margaret Talev, McClatchy Newspapers LONDON _ Not so long ago, David Lammy seemed destined to become Britain’s first black prime minister. He has much in common with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, and counts him …
New Drive to Ban Race Preferences
United States Christian Science Monitor July 3, 2008 By Stacy Teicher Khadaroo Tensions are running high in the latest affirmative-action battlegrounds. In Arizona, Nebraska, and Colorado, supporters of ballot initiatives that would ban "preferential treatment" are counting up petition signatures - and opponents are scrutinizing their valid…
Obama Doesn’t Shrink on Affirmative Action Bans
United States USA TODAY June 10, 2008 By DeWayne Wickham Shortly after Hillary Rodham Clinton suspended her presidential campaign and urged her supporters — especially women — to embrace Barack Obama’s White House bid, the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee gave them another reason to rally to his side. In response to a question I …
‘Bakke’ Set a New Path to Diversity for Colleges
United States The Chronicle of Higher Education June 20, 2008 By Peter Schmidt Thirty years ago, Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. sent the nation’s selective colleges down a path where few had ventured before. In the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, he wrote that colleges were legally j…
Did Affirmative Action Really Hinder Clarence Thomas?
United States The American Lawyer June 1, 2008 By Tamara Loomis Why couldn’t Clarence Thomas get a job with a big-city law firm when he graduated from Yale in 1974? It’s not an idle question. That "time of dashed hopes and expectations," as Thomas once described it in a speech, still leaves him bitter. His frustration resonates in the autob…
Lawsuit Says U. of Texas Considered Race Illegally
United States The Chronicle of Higher Education April 18, 2008 Friday A federal lawsuit filed last week accuses the University of Texas at Austin of improperly considering an applicant’s race when more-effective, race-neutral ways of achieving diversity were available. The plaintiff, a white, 18-year-old applicant from Richmond, Tex.,…