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Affirmative Action [Stanford Dictionary of Philosophy]
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/affirmative-action/
Comprehensive article on affirmative action including history and recent developments.  Includes extensive bibliography, and links for other Web resources.

Affirmative Action in College Admissions
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/affirm.html
This Web site, from the University of Michigan's Documents Center, contains extensive primary and secondary documents from the lawsuits against the Regents of the University of Michigan. The cases involved both the Undergraduate Admissions policy as well as the Law School admissions policy, and were brought by students Jennifer Gratz and Patrick Hamacher in U.S. District Court (Detroit) on October 14, 1997, and Barbara Grutter on December 3, 1997, respectively. Both cases allege unlawful preference to minorities were used in admissions policies. The Supreme Court addressed these issues in  June, 2003.

Affirmative Action : Who Benefits?
http://www.apa.org/pubinfo/affirmaction.html
Issued by the American Psychological Association's Office of Public Policy, this treatise on affirmative action contains definitions, frequently asked questions, and a bibliography as well as examples of passive and active affirmative action policies.

The Affirmative Action and Diversity Project : A Web Page for Research
http://aad.english.ucsb.edu/
Current information produced by the University of California, Santa Barbara. Their home page describes this resource best: "this site presents diverse opinions regarding Affirmative Action topics; rather than taking a singular pro or con position, it is designed to help lend many different voices to the debates surrounding the issues of affirmative action."  This site is an academic resource and it provides scholars, students, and the interested public with on-site articles, and theoretical analyses, policy documents, current legislative updates, and an annotated bibliography of research and teaching materials. 

CA Secretary of State - Vote96 - Proposition 209
http://vote96.ss.ca.gov/Vote96/html/BP/209.htm
This site is prepared by the Attorney General of California and contains the actual text of Proposition 209.  There are links to analysis and arguments for and against this initiative.  "This Web site is devoted to investigating the aftermath of the passing of Proposition 209, the elimination of affirmative action programs in California in November of 1996."

Documents in the News - 1999 Court Decisions
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/dn99/dn99cour.html
Links to summaries of affirmative action court cases in 1999.  By the University of Michigan Documents Center.

Federal Affirmative Action Law : A Brief History
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/53577.pdf
Updated CRS report onteh history of affirmative action at the federal level.  Written Sept. 13. 2005, by Charles Dale

Making the Case for Affirmative Action in Higher Education
http://www.acenet.edu/bookstore/descriptions/making_the_case/index.cfm
This site is sponsored by the American Council on Education, and features articles on legislative news, supreme court activity, research and essays in this area, and links to other resources on the topic of affirmative action and education.  Last modified May 2002.

The Origins of Affirmative Action
http://www.now.org/nnt/08-95/affirmhs.html
A brief history of affirmative action by Marquita Sykes.  Sponsored by NOW (National Organization for Women).

Race, Gender, and Affirmative Action
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~eandersn/biblio.htm
This is an annotated bibliography of resources on race, gender, and affirmative action intended for use of faculty designing courses for the University of Michigan's Winter 1999 Theme Semester on Diversity, and for students and browsers (that's you!) interested in a guide to the literature. Themes covered by the bibliography include: racism, sexism, affirmative action in education, legal cases about affirmative action, and alternatives to affirmative action. The bibliography also has links to additional sites.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Contains the full text to Gale Reference print volumes.  Search throughout all volumes, or choose a specific reference work.  Some relevant titles include: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ; African American Almanac ; Encyclopedia of Management.

Issue & Controversies @ Facts.com
Contains reference articles, with a pro/con format, for many current topics.  A recently updated article on Affirmative Action [June 31, 2007] is available, as well as many other articles that include the topic.

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The following books can be located in the Rio Hondo College Library.

Reference Books (2nd floor)
Non-circulating:

Affirmative action (At issue) (Opposing viewpoints series)
Call number: Ref LC212.42 .A37 2005

Affirmative action now : a guide to students, families, and counselors
Call number: Ref KF4155.Z9B43 2006

Affirmative action (Library in a book)
Call number: Ref KF3464.K73 2002

The Supreme Court A to Z
Call number: Ref KF8742.A35S8 2003

The U.S. Constitution A to Z
Call number: Ref KF4548.M33 2002

Suggested Subject Headings
For additional titles on this topic at Rio Hondo, click on the following Library of Congress subject headings:

Affirmative action programs--United States

Discrimination--United States

Minorities--Education (Higher)--United States

Minorities--United States

Race discrimination--United States

United States--Race relations

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Use the box below to search for additional resources in Rio Hondo College Library.

Articles   top
The Rio Hondo College Library provides online access to full-text articles through our online databases.  Please note:  you must be a Rio Hondo College student, faculty, staff or board member to use these services.

The sample searches and articles below are from the ProQuest database.  If you are viewing this subject guide from an on-campus computer, simply click on the links below.   To gain access if you are at home or off-campus, first click here: https://rioweb.rh.cc.ca.us/library/.  Input your student number [SSN] and password [your birthdate].  You will see a list of  all the online databases to which you have access.  Click on ProQuest and enter the database.  You may conduct your own searches at this point or come back to this subject guide and click on any of the links below:

(SUB (affirmative action) AND SUB (employment))
(SUB (affirmative action) AND SUB (public policy))

Researched and evaluated by:
E. Ball, Librarian 12/1997
last update: C. Oldham, Librarian 7/2007

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