New Dimensions in Race, Religious, Ethnic Bias

More than forty years after the passage of Title VII, employers are generally sensitized to traditional discrimination, most of which was aimed first at African-Americans and later at Hispanic-Americans. But such bias actions are still prevalent, though often with a different twist, or aimed at a different group. Asians, Arabs, and Muslims, for example, are a current target. Other immigrants—chiefly illegal aliens—are also the focus of job bias, especially in California, New York, New Jersey, Texas, Illinois, Arizona, and Florida, where state budgets and the local economy are burdened by the need to provide services for "newcomers."