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Race Neutrality - Rationalizing Remedies to Racial Inequality (Paperback)
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Race Neutrality - Rationalizing Remedies to Racial Inequality (Paperback)
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There are wide racial disparities in virtually every sphere of
economic life. African American workers earn less than whites. They
are more likely to be denied loans than whites. Minority-owned
businesses are less likely to win lucrative bids on state and
federal contracts than are white male owned businesses. Black
children are more likely than whites to be reported to child
protective services for neglect or abuse. There are even huge
disparities in downing rates between blacks and whites. What to do
about these disparities? There is a fundamental disagreement about
the appropriate remedies to these varied indicators of racial
inequality. Part of the disagreement stems from differences in
public perceptions about the underlying causes of the inequality.
But, another form of disagreement relates to the opposition to the
remedy of choice during much of the 1970s and 1980s: Affirmative
Action. Race conscious remedies -- like affirmative action policies
in hiring, college admissions, and business contracting -- suffer
from legal and constitutional challenges, compounded by hostility
from the majority of Americans. The alternative – race-neutral
remedies – attempt to address racial disparities without directly
targeting benefits exclusively to racial minority group members. In
doing so, race-neutral remedies putatively help minorities without
hurting majority group members. The authors of Race Neutrality:
Rationalizing Remedies to Racial Inequality make the case that
policy analysts should shift from a focus on whether a remedy is
race-conscious or not to a focus on the underlying problem that the
alternative remedies is attempting to resolve. This type of
rethinking of the problem of racial inequality will reveal that
sometimes race-neutral remedies hold great promise in reducing
disparities. Often, however, race-neutral remedies fail to do what
they are intended to do. The authors challenge the reader to think
about why race-neutral remedies—while desireable on their
face—might fail to resolve protracted and persistent patterns of
racial inequality in market and non-market contexts.
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