‘Affirmative action is not fair – we cannot cure
the racism of the past with new racism’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/18/racism-past-anti-semitism/
“There is a straight line running from the anti-Semitism of the 1920s to the anti-Asian bias that we see at Harvard now,” Blum believes. Many of those losing out today are from working-class families, says Blum. They are not privileged candidates, he insists, but have parents who have laboured as hotel maids, or handymen.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/18/racism-past-anti-semitism/
“There is a straight line running from the anti-Semitism of the 1920s to the anti-Asian bias that we see at Harvard now,” Blum believes. Many of those losing out today are from working-class families, says Blum. They are not privileged candidates, he insists, but have parents who have laboured as hotel maids, or handymen.
THE FAILURE OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/failure-affirmative-action/674439/
For the Black poor, a world without affirmative action is just the world as it is—no different than before.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/failure-affirmative-action/674439/
For the Black poor, a world without affirmative action is just the world as it is—no different than before.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/affirmative-action-pew-research-survey-asian-americans-supreme-court-5a202926
Justice Stevens’s Papers and Affirmative Action
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-justice-john-paul-stevenss-papers-reveal-about-affirmative-action
In a 2003 draft opinion, Sandra Day O’Connor wrote that white applicants could not be favored over Asian Americans. Why did she delete those lines?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-justice-john-paul-stevenss-papers-reveal-about-affirmative-action
In a 2003 draft opinion, Sandra Day O’Connor wrote that white applicants could not be favored over Asian Americans. Why did she delete those lines?
The Supreme Court will soon rule on race-conscious
college admissions, a core Democratic issue. But an analysis of a California
referendum points to a divide between the party and voters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/11/us/supreme-court-affirmative-action.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/11/us/supreme-court-affirmative-action.html
https://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2023/05/controversies-surrounding-affirmative.html