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Affirmative action. Discrimination positive. Reservations. Quotas.
Such policies aim to increase access to and equity within higher
education. How do different national and social contexts affect how
affirmative action policy is conceptualized, discussed, justified,
and designed? Scholars from Brazil, Bulgaria, China, France, India,
South Africa and the United States address this central question by
seeking to understand how unique national contexts shape
affirmative action for students in higher education around the
world. This unique volume includes both well established and
emerging policies from the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
These policies developed under a variety of political systems and
target a range of underrepresented groups, based on race,
ethnicity, gender, class, social background, or region. Accessible
and thought provoking case studies of affirmative action
demonstrate that such policies are expanding to different countries
and target populations. While some countries, such as India, have
affirmative action policies that predate those in the United
States, affirmative action is a recent development in countries
such as Brazil and France. Contemporary legal or political
pressures to move away from explicitly race-based policies in
several countries have complicated affirmative action and make this
assessment of international alternatives particularly timely. New
or newly modified policies target a variety of disadvantaged
groups, based on geography, class, or caste, in addition to race or
sex. International scholars in seven countries spanning five
continents offer insights into their own countries' experiences to
examine the implications of policy shifts from race toward other
categories of disadvantage, to consider best practices in student
admission policies, and to assess the future of affirmative action.
Affirmative Action Matters focuses specifically on affirmative
action policies in higher education admissions, the sphere that has
been the most controversial in many of the nations that have such
policies. It brings together distinguished scholars from diverse
nations to examine and discuss the historical, political and
philosophical contexts of affirmative action and clarify policy
developments to further the meaningful equality of educational
opportunity. This unique volume includes both well established and
emerging policies from the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia,
policies which developed under a variety of political systems and
target a range of underrepresented groups, based on race,
ethnicity, gender, class, social background, or region. Accessible
and thought provoking case studies of affirmative action
demonstrate that such policies are expanding to different countries
and target populations. While some countries, such as India, have
affirmative action policies that predate those in the United
States, affirmative action is a recent development in countries
such as Brazil and France. Legal or political pressures to move
away from explicitly race-based policies in several countries have
complicated affirmative action and make this assessment of
international alternatives particularly timely. New or newly
modified policies target a variety of disadvantaged groups, based
on geography, class, or caste, in addition to race or sex.
International scholars in six countries spanning five continents
offer insights into their own countries' experiences to examine the
implications of policy shifts from race toward other categories of
disadvantage, to consider best practices in student admission
policies, and to assess the future of affirmative action.
The book presents the select proceedings of the 2nd International
Conference on Sustainable Construction Technologies and
Advancements in Civil Engineering (ScTACE 2021). This book
discusses the latest developments and contributions towards
sustainable construction technologies and advances in civil
engineering. Various topics covered in this book are construction
technologies, geotechnical engineering, transportation and traffic
engineering, structural engineering, environmental engineering,
remote sensing and GIS, geo-environmental engineering, water
resources engineering and earthquake engineering. This book will be
useful for students, researchers and professionals working in the
area of civil engineering.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1889 Edition.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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