Anti-Discrimination Laws and Affirmative Action
Yale University Law School Professor Vicki Schultz on affirmative action, its relation to Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the various approaches to anti-discrimination laws, and the positions of Supreme Court Justices.
Description
Yale University Law School Professor Vicki Schultz on affirmative action, its relation to Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the various approaches to anti-discrimination laws, and the positions of Supreme Court Justices.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- According to Vicki Schultz why is affirmative action in trouble?
- How does she describe the conventional view of affirmative action?
- How did earlier rationales for affirmative action treat race and sex-based difference?
- Explain the new approach to this issue.
- Describe the impartiality approach to affirmative action that Ms. Schultz presents.
- How have liberals historically viewed race conscious hiring, etc. with regard to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
- What are the two versions of impartiality that she discusses?
- Why has the Supreme Court moved in a narrow direction on this issue?
Participants
Vicki SchultzProfessor, Yale University2 Videos
Vocabulary
- Affirmative Action
- Discrimination
- Diversity
- Exogenous
- Illusory
- Impartiality
- Jim Crow
- Liberals
- Static
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