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Article: Rethinking affirmative action. (conflicting definitions and impressions) (Editorial)
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- Change
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- March 1, 1993
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Today, after 30 years of vehemence and scuffle, affirmative action remains one of the most controversial of social policies in complex democracies. Not surprisingly, it has come to mean different things to different people--cognitively, politically, emotionally.
Because of the controversy, because of its multiplicity of meanings, people find it hard to talk about affirmative action together. The purpose of this issue of Change is to ease, aid, and to help restart our conversations.
To begin with definitions, affirmative action is:
1) An umbrella term for activities that executive, judicial, and legislative bodies at all levels of government have ...