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ERIC Number: EJ389785
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Affirmative Action: Is It Working?
Rivers, Jeff
Social Education, v53 n3 p164-65 Mar 1989
Relates the personal experiences of six minority journalists with different racial backgrounds and work experiences to illustrate how affirmative action programs and related initiatives have acted as a catalyst in minority hiring practices in mainstream daily newspapers. (LS)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Asian Americans, Blacks, Editors, Employment Experience, Employment Practices, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Hispanic Americans, Minority Group Influences, Minority Groups, Newspapers, Personal Narratives, Racial Discrimination, Reverse Discrimination
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Journalists; News Reporters; Publishers