MINNESOTA PROFESSIONALS FOR PSYCHOLOGY APPLIED TO WORK
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Registration opens in November.
Speaker: Dr. Anthony Chen, Northwestern University
Title: Affirmative Action: Where It Came From, Why It Has Been Retrenched, and What Is Left Of It
Description: This presentation will briefly sketch out the emergence, development, and retrenchment of affirmative action in employment and higher education. It explores why race-conscious hiring, contract, and admissions policies were first implemented, what led to their gradual curtailment over the years, and what is left of such policies today.
About our Speaker: Anthony S. Chen is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Political Science at Northwestern University. He is a political and historical sociologist interested in the political development of public policy in the United States from the New Deal, with special interests in civil rights, social policy, and business-government relations.
He is author of The Fifth Freedom (Princeton), which offers a new account of how and why affirmative action emerged in employment. In collaboration with Lisa M. Stulberg, he is completing a book on the origins and development of affirmative action in college admissions. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Journal of American History, and Studies in American Political Development (SAPD).
