Anti-Affirmative Action Group Files Another Complaint — This Time Against Cornell and Columbia
Yesterday, guest writer Felix Huang (@Brkn_Yllw_Lns) wrote an incredible essay for this blog suggesting that in talking to Chinese American…
Category: Affirmative Action
From Self-Interest to Collective Morality: How We Must Reframe the Discussion on Affirmative Action in the Asian American Community
By Guest Contributor: Felix Huang (@Brkn_Yllw_Lns) When the matter comes under contest, affirmative action’s Asian American advocates readily point to…
We Cannot Disregard Data: How Opposition to Data Disaggregation Hurts AAPI
In California, a battle over data disaggregation has reached a fevered pitch. Earlier this year, Asian American and Pacific Islander…
Abigail Fisher Isn’t an Asian American
By Guest Contributor: David Shih (@professorshih) Originally posted on David Shih Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito begins his dissenting opinion…
Supreme Court Reaffirms Race-Conscious Affirmative Action in College Admissions
The Supreme Court handed down their long-anticipated decision on Fisher v University of Texas II yesterday, eight years after Abigail Fisher (who…
#StarringAffirmativeAction: How #StarringJohnCho Debunks Recent Asian American Complaints Against Ivy League Universities
By Guest Contributor: Christopher M. Lapinig Are you all about the #StarringJohnCho posters, the Photoshop phenomenon that reimagines posters for recent…
150+ AAPI Civil Rights Organizations Join National Open Letter in Support of Affirmative Action
Less than one week after an Asian American group (comprised of predominantly Chinese American organizations) announced that they had filed a complaint…
Asian American Group Files Anti-Affirmative Action Complaint Against Yale, Dartmouth, Brown: What You Need To Know
I can’t believe we’re dealing with this again. Less than a year after the Department of Education dismissed a frivolous…
All Californians Deserve To Be Counted: Why Data Disaggregation Matters for AAPIs | #AllCACounts
The AAPI community is a big tent that encompasses people whose backgrounds span over forty different Asian and Pacific Islander…
2015 Asian America in Review: Top 10 AANHPI Stories You Might Have Missed
As the year winds down to a close, these are the top ten political stories that had a major impact…
Asian Americans Must Reject Being Used as a Wedge by Those Who Oppose Affirmative Action
Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for over an hour with regards to Fisher II, the second hearing of…
How a Yale Prof’s Defense of Offensive Halloween Costumes Reveals a Hostile Campus Climate for Students of Colour
This country’s prestigious colleges and universities have a serious race problem. At the University of Missouri, student athletes have walked…