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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED203437 AUTHOR: Harris, J. John, III; Fields, Richard E.
TITLE: Employment Discrimination: Race.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1981
NOTE: 17 p.; Chapter 16 of "School Law for a New Decade"
(EA 013 472). For related documents, see EA 013 472-493.
AVAILABILITY: Not available separately; see EA 013 472.
ABSTRACT: Chapter 16 of a book on school law provides a
legal overview of employment discrimination on the basis of
race. A litany of cases has been adjudicated or are
currently in litigation. Selected cases are reviewed
briefly and arguments for and against the affirmative
action guidelines are presented. The main area of complaint
about the guidelines is their controversial quota, or
percentage, systems. A number of cases are discussed that
concern quotas, among them the Regents of the University of
California v. Allen Bakke and Weber v. Kaiser Aluminum and
Chemical Corporation. The author concludes that the courts
are sending out confusing signals and that a ruling on
constitutional grounds under the Fourteenth Amendment would
help to clarify the apparent conflicts. (Author/MLF)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Compliance-Legal; Court-Litigation
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Affirmative-Action; *Equal-Opportunities
Jobs; *Racial-Discrimination
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