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Employment Law Race and Color Discrimination
Keller Graduate School of Management
2013
Policy Manual
Employment Law

Keller Graduate School of Management
2013
Policy Manual
Employment Law

Table of Contents Race and Color Discrimination 3 Exhibit 6.1: Classified Ads. 1662 3 Exhibit 6.2: Equal Income 3 Evolving Definitions of Race 4 Exhibit 6.3: EEOC’s Revised Race/National Origin Guidance 4 Exhibit 6.4: Hispanic: Race or national Origin- and Who is included? 4 What Racial Categories Will Be Used in Current Surveys and Other Data Collections by the Census Bureau? 5 Exhibit 6.5: Reality of Intentional Job Discrimination 5 Exhibit 6.6: EEOC’s E-RACE Initiative 6 THE E-RACE INITIATIVE (ERADICATING RACISM AND COLORISM FROM EMPLOYMENT) 6 Why Do We Need E-RACE? 6 Exhibit 6.7: EEOC’s Revised Race Guidance 6 WHAT IS “RACE” DISCRIMINATION? 6 Exhibit 6.8: EEOC’s National Origin Guidance 7 NATIONAL ORIGIN DISCRIMINATION 7 ABOUT NATIONAL ORIGIN DISCRIMINATION 7 COVERAGE OF FOREIGN NATIONALS 7 Exhibit 6.9: Profile: Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993), Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1967–1992 7 Race: Putting It All Together 8 General Considerations 8 Recognizing Race Discrimination 8 Exhibit 6.10: Names and “Hello” Can Keep You Out 8 Racial Harassment 8

Chapter Six
Race and Color Discrimination
It is unlawful for any employer to discriminate by refusing to hire or discharge any person and or discriminate any person relating to wages, terms and conditions, or privileges of employment due to race, color, creed or national origin. It is unlawful to segregate or classify any employee and deprive them of equal employment opportunities and cause due harm which will affect their status as an employee based on their race, color, creed or national origin. [Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 200e-2(a).]
Exhibit 6.1: Classified Ads. 1662
The information below is an example of a classified Ad advertisement printed before Title VII. It

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