Racial Classification: Politics of the Future?
In: Policy review: the journal of American citizenship, Band 17, S. 87-94
ISSN: 0146-5945
Supreme Court decisions in recent years have legitimized, & in some cases mandated, reverse discrimination. Thus, while formerly individual merit was recognized in principle as the proper basis for hiring decisions & the like, now ethnic affinity is coming to replace it, in the form of a quota system. In addition to the dangers of be counted as belonging to which racial group. It will ultimately be necessary to establish clearly defined legal standards of racial identity. Problems can also arise from employee noncooperation in the form of either refusal to classify oneself or insistence on an incorrect classification. A better policy would be legal prohibition of any collection of records on race on religion. W. H. Stoddard.