{"id":1248043,"date":"2023-07-07T18:22:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T17:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businesstelegraph.co.uk\/american-college-admissions-rule-affirmative-action-its-not-a-binary\/"},"modified":"2023-07-07T18:22:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T17:22:15","slug":"american-college-admissions-rule-affirmative-action-its-not-a-binary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businesstelegraph.co.uk\/american-college-admissions-rule-affirmative-action-its-not-a-binary\/","title":{"rendered":"American college admissions rule: Affirmative action, it\u2019s not a binary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- newscabal uk text -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8162386273903324\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3688094655\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-brcount=\"6\">The US Supreme Court&#8217;s 6-3 majority decision last week effectively ended affirmative action in college admissions. The case, brought on behalf of <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#Opinion#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/asian-american-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asian-American students<\/a>, claimed racial discrimination based on stereotypes by <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#Opinion#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/harvard-university\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harvard University<\/a> and <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#Opinion#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/university-of-north-carolina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of North Carolina<\/a> Chapel Hill. The conservative court delivered a final blow to race-conscious admissions. However, the attrition began some 40 years ago, driving home the need to review and adjust instruments of social justice without becoming fault lines for social injustice, or worse.<\/p>\n<p>Though the plaintiffs were Asian Americans, the ruling and dissent largely saw it as a &#8216;Black-and-White&#8217; issue. This exposed the failure of the system designed for a racial binary to account for a multi-racial reality. Race-conscious policies were introduced after the 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas, to desegregate schools. Affirmative action, a term introduced in a 1961 executive order by President John F Kennedy, was a way to redress deprivation resulting in generational disparity in education, employment and housing. The 1978 Regents of the University of California v. Bakke case, the first major challenge, stripped away the policy&#8217;s moral underpinning and redefined it as a tool for social and institutional diversity. Thus began the slow unravel. The ruling&#8217;s impacts could even begin to dismantle affirmative action in other spheres beyond education.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lesson here for all countries. The tools for redressing systemic deprivation and institutional discrimination resulting in generational backwardness must be different from those used for increasing diversity. Failure to make the distinction will result in throwing out the baby with the bathwater.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8162386273903324\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7859258044\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/opinion\/et-editorial\/american-college-admissions-rule-affirmative-action-its-not-a-binary\/articleshow\/101581187.cms\">READ SOURCE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Supreme Court&#8217;s 6-3 majority decision last week effectively ended affirmative action in college admissions. The case, brought on behalf of Asian-American students, claimed racial discrimination based on stereotypes by Harvard University and University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. The conservative court delivered a final blow to race-conscious admissions. However, the attrition began some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1248045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oct_exclude_from_cache":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>American college admissions rule: Affirmative action, it\u2019s not a binary - Business Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/opinion\/et-editorial\/american-college-admissions-rule-affirmative-action-its-not-a-binary\/articleshow\/101581187.cms\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"American college admissions rule: Affirmative action, it\u2019s not a binary - Business Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The US Supreme Court&#8217;s 6-3 majority decision last week effectively ended affirmative action in college admissions. 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