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Jonas, William – 1999
This report examines the disadvantaged and marginalized condition of the Indigenous peoples of Australia as a human rights issue, focusing on issues concerning Indigenous young people. Permeating the report is the idea that this disadvantage arises from a history of overt and structural discrimination and that special efforts and differential…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Adolescents, Bilingual Education, Civil Rights

Blits, Jan H.; Gottfredson, Linda S. – Society, 1990
Describes the evolution of "race-norming," or "within-group scoring," the practice by which job candidates' scores on employment tests are reported relative to comparison groups of their own race or ethnicity. Contends that race-norming fosters group rather than individual rights and perpetuates the inequality it intends to…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Civil Rights, Employment Practices, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Fullinwider, Robert K. – 1980
This book has two principal aims: to clarify the topical and controversial issue of reverse discrimination and to reach some conclusions about the rights and wrongs involved in this issue. Focusing mainly on preferential hiring, the book explicitly and extensively addresses the law and the institutional context of the issues. Examination of the…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation