📚 noun • entry_id 25265
affirmative action
Meanings (ES + gloss)
acción afirmativa • acción positiva • discriminación positiva
A set of policies or programs providing advantages for people of a group who are seen to have traditionally been the target of discrimination.
California's decision in 1996 to outlaw the use of race in public college admissions was widely viewed as the beginning of the end for affirmative action at public universities all…
Several proponents of affirmative action who were interviewed cited the scandal to dismiss the notion, advanced by some opponents of the policy, that America has moved beyond racia…
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