... of affirmative action would agree that, just because discrimination against non-White minorities occurred in the past, reverse discrimination should not be implemented against the White majority - a majority which had nothing to do with the discrimination of the past -- as a means of undoing past injustices and narrowing racial gaps. Proponents of affirmative action policies, on the other hand, would probably ... majorities. If it is the policy of a particular institution to shape admissions by the preferential treatment of certain social groups, then admittees from non-preferred social g...

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... more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force- (Hooks , 1995). She claims that "white supremacy" is a better phrase than "internalized racism" in describing the absorption by black people of negative attitudes typically held by white people about blackness. "White supremacy" is also useful when referring to how ... neither inferior or assimilating, that group unconsciously legitimizes the ideology of white supremacy as "its advocates urge black people to negate blackness, to imitate racist w...

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