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SOURCE: New York Times
11/16/2020
Liberals Envisioned a Multiracial Coalition. Voters of Color Had Other Ideas
Since the dawn of the 21st century, it has become commonplace for party leaders to talk of a rising demographic tide that is destined to lift the Democrats to dominance. The party should look at the defeat of California's affirmative action referendum as a caution that things won't be so simple.
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11/15/2020
Affirmative Action Goes Down to Defeat in Deep Blue California
by James Thornton Harris
The defeat of California's Proposition 16 exposes some significant fault lines in the multiethnic coalition the Democratic Party hopes will support its future success.
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9/13/2020
Prop 16 and the "Chinese Virus" Bring Two Views of Asian American History into Conflict
by Hao Zou
Many Chinese Americans oppose California's Proposition 16, which would reinstate race-based affirmative action in state university admissions. This support stems from a meritocratic interpretation of Chinese American experiences that is challenged by the xenophobic "Chinese Virus" discourse around COVID-19.
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9/6/2020
Will California Voters End a 24-Year Ban on Affirmative Action?
by James Thornton Harris
Voters in November may reverse California's constitutional ban on affirmative action, which was passed by ballot measure in 1996. The state's electorate has changed considerably in a quarter century and passage seems likely.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/21/2020
A Detailed Look at the Downside of California’s Ban on Affirmative Action
Ending racial preferences in a state university system harmed Black and Hispanic students while doing little to lift whites and Asian-Americans, a study asserts.
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SOURCE: NY Times
3/30/19
50 Years of Affirmative Action: What Went Right, and What It Got Wrong
A look back through the decades shows what went right in the early years of affirmative action in college admissions, but also what can go wrong even with the best of intentions.
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4/15/18
What You May Not Realize About the Supreme Court Ruling that Backed Affirmative Action
by Anders Walker
40 years after the Bakke decision its endorsement of diversity may have been an ironic legacy of Jim Crow.
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SOURCE: NYT
8-13-17
Making Affirmative Action White Again
by Ira Katznelson
Any decision to reorient the Civil Rights Division would be based on the fiction that we already possess a level playing field.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
8-11-17
Who’s benefiting from affirmative action?
by Jonathan Zimmerman
White men.
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SOURCE: University of North Carolina Blog
7-8-14
Conservatives have been impatient with measures like affirmative action since the end of Reconstruction
by Marc Stein
“People can disagree in good faith on this issue, but it . . . does more harm than good to question the openness and candor of those on either side of the debate.”
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SOURCE: Detroit Free Press
10-10-13
Michigan's affirmative action ban has 'chilling effect,' Kevin Gaines
Gaines is a plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking to overturn the ban.
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SOURCE: CNN.com
6-25-13
Mary L. Dudziak: Why Affirmative Action Took a Hit
Mary L. Dudziak is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University. She is the author of War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences, and Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey(CNN) -- When the Supreme Court on Monday sent Fisher v. University of Texas, an affirmative action case, back to the lower court for a second look, supporters of race-conscious policies breathed a sigh of relief.
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SCOTUS Ruling on Affirmative Action Could Give Private Universities Advantage
by John Willingham
Credit: Wiki Commons.The Supreme Court, in a 7-1 decision with Justice Ginsburg dissenting, has issued a ruling in the Fisher v. University of Texascase that will likely require public universities to explore virtually all race-neutral alternatives in their attempts to achieve diversity before being able to use race as a factor in admissions.The ruling was probably the result of a compromise that, while not overturning previous decisions and not ruling that UT’s use of race is unconstitutional, will nevertheless lead to greater difficulty for colleges that want to use race as a factor in admissions.The decision vacates the ruling in favor of UT Austin by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and remands the case to the circuit court with instructions to apply "strict scrutiny" to the university’s rationale for using race as an admissions factor.
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SOURCE: AP
3-28-13
A post-racial US? Supreme Court may nullify civil rights policies as outdated in era of Obama
WASHINGTON — Has the nation lived down its history of racism and should the law become colorblind?Addressing two pivotal legal issues, one on affirmative action and a second on voting rights, a divided Supreme Court is poised to answer those questions.In one case, the issue is whether race preferences in university admissions undermine equal opportunity more than they promote the benefits of racial diversity. Just this past week, justices signaled their interest in scrutinizing affirmative action very intensely, expanding their review as well to a Michigan law passed by voters that bars “preferential treatment” to students based on race. Separately in a second case, the court must decide whether race relations — in the South, particularly — have improved to the point that federal laws protecting minority voting rights are no longer warranted....
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SOURCE: National Review
3-14-13
Victor Davis Hanson: The New Affirmative Action
NRO contributor Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. His The Savior Generals will appear in the spring from Bloomsbury Books.Sometime in the first years of the new millennium, “global warming” evolved into “climate change.” Amid growing controversies over the planet’s past temperatures, Al Gore and other activists understood that human-induced “climate change” could explain almost any weather extremity — droughts or floods, temperatures too hot or too cold, hurricanes and tornadoes — better than “global warming” could.Similar verbal gymnastics have gradually turned “affirmative action” into “diversity” — a word ambiguous enough to avoid the innate contradictions of a liberal society affirming the illiberal granting of racial preferences.
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