What was the rationale behind affirmative action, and how did it ...

[Anajune7]

What was the rationale behind affirmative action, and how did it impact schools and employers?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Explain the racist attitudes of the United States toward Chinese immigrants between 1882 and World War II.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[Jsherida]

Answer to Question 1

The rationale underlying affirmative action was a belief that a school or business with few minority students or employees is itself evidence that discrimination has occurred. The burden is then on the school or the employer to prove that it has not discriminated by actively seeking out minorities.

Answer to Question 2

Between 1882 and World War II, racist attitudes in the United States characterized the Chinese as a yellow peril. Many Chinese returned to their home country because of this hostility. Those who remained were forced to move to ghettos called Chinatowns. Chinese people were often referred to with the pejorative term coolies, and the racism toward Chinese often implied biological differences between Chinese and Anglos.