Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Race or Class? The Future of Affirmative Action

Focusing college-student recruitment on poor neighborhoods can overlook middle-class African Americans entitled to affirmative action. 

By Richard Rothstein, The American Prospect 

Chief Justice John Roberts says that “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” In university admissions, this means becoming “colorblind,” taking no affirmative action to favor African Americans. Apparently intimidated by Roberts’s Supreme Court plurality, many university officials, liberals, and civil-rights advocates have exchanged their former support of affirmative action for policies that appear closer to Roberts’s.

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