Why we still need affirmative action for African Americans in college admissions

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The Washington Post
Walerie Strauss
Twitter: @valeriestrauss
July 3, 2014

Affirmative action in college admissions for African Americans has been losing support in the United States for some time, with new "colorblind" methods of ending gaining ground in the courts. In this powerful defense of affirmative action, Richard Rothstein explains why pretending color doesn't matter doesn't actually work and why it is unfair. Rothstein is a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, a non-profit created in 1986 to broaden the discussion about economic policy to include the interests of low- and middle-incom workers. He is also senior fellow of the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and social Policy at the University of California (Berkeley) School of Law, and he is the author of books including "Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right, and "Class and Schools" Using Social, Economic and Education Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap." He was a national education writer for The New York Times as well. This first appeared in the American Prospect.

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