Box 34: Making the Case Against and for Affirmative Action: Eighteen

question 13

Multiple Choice

Box. 3.4: Making the Case Against and for Affirmative Action: Eighteen White firefighters, including one Hispanic, sued the City of New Haven claiming racial discrimination. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case in 2009 and in a dramatic ruling declared the white firefighters were unfairly denied promotion because of their race, making this:

• A) Non-discrimination
• B) Anti-discrimination
• C) Reserve Discrimination
• D) Positive Discrimination

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Definitions:

Primates

An order of mammals that includes humans, monkeys, and apes, characterized by large brains, forward-facing eyes, and dexterous hands.

Meiosis

A kind of cell division that produces the sex cells, each of which has half the number of chromosomes found in other cells of the organism.

Chromosomes

In the cell nucleus, the structures, visible during cellular division, containing long strands of DNA combined with a protein.