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Hello! We wanted to take this space to share our resources that we looked into during our podcast episode creation
Supporting affirmative action is something that is dear to us and we wholeheartedly believe that affirmative action should be re-established in California.
We’re happy to engage in a conversation with you if you have thoughts about this!
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Otherwise, we hope you take some time and check out the articles below. It really helped me get a deeper understanding of how affirmative action came to be and what are some of the myths around affirmative action and context for the Student For Fair Admissions v Harvard lawsuit.
Additionally, we mentioned in our episode about admission rates after Prop 209 went into effect. Here’s a really clear visual of the changes in admission rate for different ethnicity in the UC system after affirmative action was repealed. That’s a pretty shocking and dramatic drop!
Graphic from http://reappropriate.co/2020/06/california-poised-to-restore-affirmative-action-after-nearly-25-years/#more-29316
As you can see, Prop 209 had negligible impacts on White and Asian American admission to the UC system. It had the most dramatic effect — a nearly 10-point drop — in Black and Native American admissions.
Thanks!
Resources
Chin, M , Poon, O, Wong, J, & Park, J. Here are TEN reasons NOT to fall for the “Asian American Penalty” trap in admissions!. Medium, 23 Feb 2019.
Nichols, Andrew Howard. Debunking 5 Myths about Affirmative Action. The Education Trust, 15 Aug. 2018
Poon, OiYan. How do colleges use affirmative action? Even some activists don’t understand. The Conversation, 26 Oct 2018.
Fang, Jenn. California Poised to Restore Affirmative Action After Nearly 25 Years. Reappropriate Blog. 11 June 2020.
Poon, OiYan. Reconnecting Heart and Head: Racism, Immigration Policy, WeChat, and Chinese Americans. Reappropriate. 24 May 2018.
Lockhart, PR. The lawsuit against Harvard that could change affirmative action in college admissions, explained. Vox. 18 Oct, 2018.
Thornhill, Ted. Black student activists face penalty in college admissions. The Conversation. 5 Sept 2018.
Nakae, Sunny & Poon, OiYan. An Open Letter to Dr. Wang from Two Asian American Scholars Who Support Affirmative Action. 2 Sept 2020.
Frank H. Wu and Theodore Hsien Wang, Beyond the Model Minority Myth: Why Asian Americans Support Affirmative Action, 53 Guild Prac. 35 (1996). Available at: http://repository.uchastings.edu/faculty_scholarship/850
Runes, Charmaine. #NotYourModelMinority: Asian Americans in the affirmative action debate. Urban Wire. 3 Aug 2017.
More History of Affirmative Action Policies From the 1960s.American Association for Access, Equity and Diversity.
McBride, Alex. Regents of University of California v. Bakke (1978). Thirteen: Media with Impact.
Jenkins, Austin. Washington voters narrowly rejecting affirmative action. KUOW (NPR).
Jenkins, Austin. Affirmative action returns to Washington ballot after more than 20 years. KUOW (NPR).
"Affirmative action." Britannica Library, Encyclopædia Britannica, 18 May. 2020.
Baker, Mike. Why Affirmative Action Is on the Ballot in Washington State. The New York Times.
Baker, Mike. Voters Narrowly Reject Affirmative Action in Washington State. What’s Next?. The New York Times.
Stranger Election Control Board. The Stranger's Endorsements for the November 5, 2019, General Election. The Stranger.
Nelson, Glenn. Why have Chinese immigrants become the face of WA's affirmative-action wars? Crosscut (Cascade Public Media).
Lee, Jennifer & Tran, Van C. The Mere Mention of Asians in Affirmative Action. Sociological Science.