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Illusions Of Opportunity? A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Atlanta's Opportunity Youth Initiative, Alexander Camardelle
Illusions Of Opportunity? A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Atlanta's Opportunity Youth Initiative, Alexander Camardelle
Educational Policy Studies Dissertations
This is a critical discourse analysis of discourses that are present within an opportunity youth initiative in Atlanta, Georgia that disproportionately serves Black youth. Historically, job training policies and the stakeholders who influence the formation and implementation of programs and services do so in the context of neoliberalism, which fails to direct explicit attention to systemic barriers that Black youth face when navigating education and employment. To that end, there are concerns that the race-neutral orientation of job training policies and programs, their associated discourses, and the actors that deploy those discourses may negatively construct Black youth and advance neoliberal …
What Is Wrong With Statistical Discrimination?, Ziyue Sun
What Is Wrong With Statistical Discrimination?, Ziyue Sun
Philosophy Theses
Statistical discrimination is a form of discrimination that uses statistical inferences about the groups to which individuals belong as grounds for treating them differently. It remains unclear what, if anything, makes statistical discrimination wrong. My thesis argues that statistical discrimination is wrong because, and insofar as, it contributes to existing social injustice. After an introduction to the issues in section 1, section 2 clarifies the concept of statistical discrimination and its differences with non-statistical discrimination. Section 3 discusses different accounts that seek to explain when and why statistical discrimination is wrong. I examine two approaches, one of which regards the …