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spanp classMsoNormalspanDoes your workplace have too few black people in top jobs iIts racist.i Does the advanced math and science high school in your city have too many Asians iItamp8217s racist.i Does your local museum employ too many white women iItamp8217s racist too.ispanpp classMsoNormalspanAfter the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 prestigious American institutions from the medical profession to the fine arts pleaded guilty to systemic racism. How else explain why blacks are overrepresented in prisons and underrepresented in Csuites and faculty lounges their leaders askedspanpp classMsoNormalspanThe official answer for those disparities is amp8220disparate impactamp8221 a once obscure legal theory that is now transforming our world. Any traditional standard of behavior or achievement that impedes exact racial proportionality in any enterprise is now presumed racist. Medical school admissions tests expectations of scientific accomplishment in the award of research grants the enforcement of the criminal lawall are under assault because they have a amp8220disparate impactamp8221 on underrepresented minorities.spanpp classMsoNormalispanWhen Race Trumps Meritspanispan provides an alternative explanation for those racial disparities. It is large academic skills gaps that cause the lack of proportional representation in our most meritocratic organizations and large differences in criminal offending that account for the racially disproportionate prison population.spanpp classMsoNormalspanThe need for such a corrective argument could not be more urgent. Federal science agencies now treat researchersamp8217 skin color as a scientific qualification. Museums and orchestras choose which art and music to promote based on race. Police officers avoid making arrests and prosecutors decline to bring charges to avoid disparate impact on minority criminals.spanpp classMsoNormalispanWhen Race Trumps Meritspanispan breaks powerful taboos. But it is driven by a sense of alarm su

• Brand: Unbranded
• Category: Society & Politics
• Format: Hardback
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2023-06-01
• Publisher / Label: DW Books
• Author: Heather Mac Donald
• Number of Pages: 320

• Fruugo ID: 211369394-450579540
• ISBN: 9781956007169
• Sold by: Ria Christie Collections