English as Affirmative Action ... But Affirming What? A Study of Interactions in the Affirmative Space
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From affirmative action to affirming diversity.
Affirmative action is based on a set of 30-year-old premises that badly need revising. White males are no longer dominant at every level of the corporation (statistically, they are merely the largest of many minorities), while decades of attack have noticeably weakened racial and gender prejudices. At the intake level, affirmative action quite effectively sets the stage for a workplace that is ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BELTA Journal
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2521-5140
DOI: 10.36832/beltaj.2018.0201.03