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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED200682 AUTHOR: Walentynowicz, Leonard F.
TITLE: Employment and Ethnicity.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1980
NOTE: 62 p.; Not available separately; see UD 021 324.
Paper
presented at a consultation sponsored by the U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights (Chicago, IL, December 3, 1979).
For a related document see UD 021 332.
ABSTRACT: Issues regarding the equal employment of white
ethnic Americans are discussed in this presentation by the
Executive Director of the Polish American Congress. It is
held that Federal efforts to prohibit discrimination based
on race, color, creed, sex, and national origin are
actually only acting to overcome discrimination based on
race, color, and sex. The author asserts that failure to
collect data on Euro-ethnic Americans and the tendency to
focus affirmative action programs on blacks, Hispanics, and
women serve to handicap southern and eastern European
Americans in the job market. It is recommended that the
government implement separate categories for white ethnic
groups in the collection of demographic data, in order to
document the need for affirmative action policy directed
toward these groups. Appended to this discussion are copies
of testimony regarding the 1980 Census presented by the
Polish American Congress to the Civil Service Commission
and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, as well as
briefs filed in the "Bakke" and "Weber" cases. The
testimony and briefs focus upon the need for affirmative
action programs for white ethnic groups. (GC)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Equal-Education; Equal-Opportunities-Jobs;
Federal-Legislation
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Affirmative-Action; *Court-Litigation;
*Ethnic-Discrimination; *Ethnic-Groups; *Polish-Americans;
*Whites-
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