Question with Sample Answer—Disparate-Impact Discrimination. Chinawa, a major processor of cheese sold throughout the United States, employs one hundred workers at its principal processing plant. The plant is located in Heartland Corners, which has a population that is 50 percent white and 25 percent African American, with the balance Hispanic American, Asian American, and others.

Chinawa requires a high school diploma as a condition of employment for its cleaning crew. Three-fourths of the white population complete high school, compared with only onefourth of those in the minority groups. Chinawa has an allwhite cleaning crew. Has Chinawa violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Explain. (See pages 657 and 671.)

—For a sample answer to Question 25–2, go to Appendix G at the end of this text.