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Affirmative Action Around The World: An Empirical Study
In this important book, an eminent authority presents a new perspective on affirmative action, investigating its actual consequences in the United States and in other countries where it has been in effect. Evaluating his empirical data, Thomas Sowell concludes that race preference programs worldwide have not met expectations and have often produced the opposite of what was...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
March 11th 2005
by Yale University Press
(first published 2004)
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I enjoy reading Sowell.
"The percentage of black families with incomes below the official poverty line fell from 87 percent in 1940 to 47 percent by 1960-all of this before the civil rights legislation of that decade, much less the affirmative action policies of the 1970s. Between 1960 and 1970, the poverty rate among black families dropped an additional 17 percentage points and, after the decade of the 1970s in which affirmative action was established, the poverty rate among blacks f...more
"The percentage of black families with incomes below the official poverty line fell from 87 percent in 1940 to 47 percent by 1960-all of this before the civil rights legislation of that decade, much less the affirmative action policies of the 1970s. Between 1960 and 1970, the poverty rate among black families dropped an additional 17 percentage points and, after the decade of the 1970s in which affirmative action was established, the poverty rate among blacks f...more
Another great book by Sowell. He actually sites examples and statistics of some successful and some detrimental governmental polices.
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any one interested in race relations in america as they relate to affirmtive action
The myriad of problems with affirmative action. Indeed that it may be more harmful then good. That affirmative action may actually end up hurting those it is meant to help.
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Thomas Sowell is an American economist, social commentator, and author of dozens of books. He often writes from an economically laissez-faire perspective. He is currently a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In 1990, he won the Francis Boyer Award, presented by the American Enterprise Institute. In 2002 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal for prolific scholars...more
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