Applying the Strength Perspective to Bolster Affirmative Action

Authors

Nocona L. Pewewardy, University of Kansas

Date of this Version

April 1998

Abstract

“The purpose of this presentation is to critically examine affirmative action as an effort at reparation for the past exclusion and oppression of women and men from racially diverse groups and to rethink affirmative action using the strengths perspective.”