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…
Tag: Affirmative Action
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…
Dept. of Education Dismisses Complaint Filed Against Harvard By anti-Affirmative Action Asian American Groups
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, the Department of Education yesterday dismissed an administrative complaint filed in May against…
Espenshade: Data are not Proof of anti-Asian Discrimination | #Edu4All
Thomas Espenshade Since the publication in 2009 of his influential study (with co-author Alexandria Walton Radford) on admission patterns in…
Asian American US Civil Rights Commissioners Issue Statement on Harvard Affirmative Action Complaint | #Edu4All
Today, a group of between 40 and 50 Asian American organizations will hold two coordinated press conferences in Washington DC and…
135+ AANHPI Organizations Come Together In Support of Affirmative Action | #Edu4All
Last year, California was poised to return affirmative action to the state’s institutions of higher education via a state constitutional amendment…
Mindy Kaling’s Brother Donned Blackface for 2 years in Twisted, Racist “Experiment”
(H/T M. Holt) Did y’all know Mindy Kaling had a brother? Yeah, neither did I. Turns out that the star…
How holistic review in college admissions works, and why we need it | #IAmNotYourWedge
Here’s a thought experiment: let’s say you need to buy a car. Now, let’s say you go to the car…
#AAPI groups & writing in support of affirmative action | #IAmNotYourWedge #BlockBlum
With Monday’s news of two lawsuits filed by a conservative anti-affirmative action activist Edward Blum hoping to challenge affirmative action…
#IAmNotYourWedge: Lawsuits against Harvard & UNC assert anti-Asian discrimination in admissions
On Monday, a newly formed group called Students for Fair Admissions which was created by Edward Blum — a Republican…
Reappropriate: The Podcast – Ep. 10 | Mismatch Theory
This episode was recorded two weeks ago but for a variety of reasons I didn’t have time to publish it!…
Majority of AAPI voters in CA support affirmative action — so, who are the ones that don’t?
I was having dinner earlier this week with a member of my extended family when the topic of race-conscious affirmative…