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Jeremy Marinos
Professor Kathy Rowley
English 201
01 May 2012
Annotated Bibliography
Fund, John. “Affirmative Action May Hurt More than Help Blacks and Hispanics.” Affirmative
Action. Paul Connors, ed. Farmington Hills: Greenhaven Press, 2009. Print. This article
focuses on different universities and the effects that lifting affirmative action policies
had. The author showed that when these policies went away the quality of African
American students went up. John Fund is a contributor to the Wall Street Journal and
received the Warren Brookes Award for journalistic excellence from the American
Legislative Exchange Council in 1993. This article may be useful when determining how
affirmative action may be “treating the symptoms” by inflating number. In reality the
numbers may not need to be propped up and inflated.
Vickers, Melana Zyla. “Affirmative Action for Men is Politically Incorrect.” Affirmative Action.
Paul Connors, ed. Farmington Hills: Greenhaven Press, 2009. Print. This article discusses
the widening gap in the genders when it comes to college enrollments. Men are going to
college at a dropping rate compared to women. This begs the question of whether
policies such as Title IV should be reexamined in an age where more women go to
college than men. Vickers is a communist for the TCS Daily and her work has been
published in the At Issue Series: Affirmative Action available in the University library.
This author shows that there may be a problem on the horizon with men, a group of
people that have always been seen as the most advantaged group.
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Black, Sandra B. and Amir Sufi. “Who Goes to College? Differential Enrollment by Race and
Family Background.” National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, NBER Working
Papers (2002). Web. This paper reveals some interesting facts about African American
enrollment. It shows that when you control for family background African Americans
are more likely to go to college than whites. It also shows that low income African
Americans are more likely to go to college than low income whites but high income
African Americans are less likely to go to college than high income whites. Sandra B.
Black obtained a PhD in Economics at Harvard and is currently a professor of economics
at the University of Texas. Amir Surfi obtained a PhD in Economics from MIT and is
currently teaching Finance at University of Chicago Booth School of Business. This
brings to light some surprising pieces of information, suggesting that the reason why
more African Americans aren’t going to college may be for social reasons and not
economic.
American Community Survey. US Census Bureau. The result of this current reliable survey
done by the census at the national level show that more female are enrolled in college
than males. It also shows that there are more females that have college degrees than
males. Despite this, female wages are lower across the board. This survey is available as
current as 2010.
Staff, Jeremy and Jeylan T. Mortimer. “Explaining the Motherhood Wage Penalty during the
Early Occupational Career” Demography, February 2012, v. 49, iss. 1, pp. 1-21. Web
This paper shows that women without children make more than women with children.
The article states that that this may partially due to women choosing lower paying jobs
(not intentionally) in order to prepare for taking time off when they have children.
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Jeremy Staff obtained a PhD in Sociology from the University of Minnesota. He
currently works as an associate and research professor at Penn State University. Jeylan
T. Mortimer obtained a PhD in Social Organization from the University of Michigan.
She is currently a professor at the University of Minnesota. This article shows possible
reasons why women make less.
Anderson, Terry H. The Pursuit of Fairness: A History of Affirmative Action. New York: Oxford,
2004. Print. This gives an overview of affirmative action. By understanding the past laws
and circumstances surrounding them, current laws can be evaluated for relevance.
Anderson obtained his PhD in History from Indiana University. He is currently a
professor at Texas A&M University.
Card, David and Jesse Rothstein “Racial Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap.”
Journal of Public Economics, December 2007, v. 91, iss. 11-12, pp. 2158-84. Web. This
article examines different factors that may effects differences in SAT scores among the
races. The author conclude that “neighborhood composition matters more than school
composition.” David Card is a Professor of Economics at the University of California,
Berkeley and Director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic
Research. Jesse Rothstein is a professor of economics at the University of California.
This article examines what factors affect SAT scores, an important determinant for
college admissions. By examining these effects reasons why differences in test score
between the races will become more clear.
Zlomek, Erin. “An End Run Around Affirmative Action Bans.” Bloomberg Businessweek;
4/23/2012, Issue 4276, p52-52, 8/9p. Web. This article talks about effects of banning
racial preferences at the University of California and what is being done now to get
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similar results as before. After racial preference was banned, African American
enrollment went down. To get African American student to apply they start recruiting in
predominately African American schools. Zlomek is a writer and reporter with
Bloomber Businesweek in New York. This gives evidence that African American
enrollment does go down. Is this necessarily a bad or damaging thing in the long run?
This article gives examples of what is done in the absence of traditional and obvious
attempt of affirmative action.
Niu, Sunny Xinchun and Marta Tienda. “The impact of the Texas top ten percent law on college
enrollment: A regression discontinuity approach.” Journal of Policy Analysis &
Management; Winter2010, Vol. 29 Issue 1, p84-110, 27p. Web. This article helps to
analyze a system that is aimed to be fair. Any student from the top 10% of his/her
graduating class can any public school. Other articles state that since there are pockets of
minorities (i.e. many minorities in individual schools) diversification can be achieved.
Marta Tienda is a professor of sociology at Princeton University. The Top 10% Plan in
Texas is aimed at making admission focused more on merit and not on where you were
from or what your race is.