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Affirmative Action: Equality Or Reverse Discrimination?, Gabriel Patrick Wasson

Senior Honors Theses

The practice of affirmative action has recently been at the vanguard of intense debate more than any other time in its forty-year history. A growing number of programs including quotas, preferential hiring, minority scholarships, diversity, and reverse discrimination have all been linked to affirmative action, which aims to break down the wall of segregation that excluded racial minorities and women from the workplace and in education. Two class-action lawsuits, Gratz v. Bollinger [02-516] and Gnttter v. Bollinger [02-241], filed in response to white students being denied admission to the University of Michigan's undergraduate and law school program, provided the United …