{"id":5813,"date":"2016-08-01T10:18:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T15:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=5813"},"modified":"2016-09-14T09:45:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T14:45:38","slug":"whitewashed-affirmative-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2016\/08\/01\/whitewashed-affirmative-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitewashed Affirmative Action"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Al Sharpton speaks outside the Supreme Court as it hears arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas Austin. Photo by Jordan Uhl, Flickr CC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After a series of decisions and appeals, Abigail Fisher\u2019s infamous case against UT Austin (dating as far back as 2008) concluded with the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s 4-3 decision that the school\u2019s admission policies were constitutional. Fisher had made the case that her rejected application was due to her race, as minority applicants who were supposedly less deserving had taken spots from her. This case is one in a long line of litigation by white women against affirmative action, as discussed in an article<\/a> on Vox; ironically, however, white women are among affirmative action\u2019s primary beneficiaries.<\/p>\n

<\/div>As detailed in the article, research shows how affirmative action for women translated into job advances: as benchmarks for gender enrollment are\u00a0met,\u00a0representation for white women has increased dramatically in certain sectors. Often, opponents of affirmative action state that race shouldn\u2019t play a factor in application decisions, but research from sociologists Thomas J. Espenshade<\/a> and Alexandria Walton Radford<\/a> shows how this works against<\/em> Asian-Americans, who are three times less likely than whites to be admitted to selective schools even with the exact same scores. Furthermore, affirmative action has also enabled the existence of legacy application processes, meaning people whose parents went to a certain school are more likely to be accepted there\u2014a system that disproportionally helps whites. It seems affirmative action is safe for the time being, but the details may still need an overhaul.As benchmarks for gender enrollment are\u00a0met,\u00a0representation for white women has increased dramatically in certain sectors. White women are among affirmative action’s primary beneficiaries.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a series of decisions and appeals, Abigail Fisher\u2019s infamous case against UT Austin (dating as far back as 2008) concluded with the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s 4-3 decision that the school\u2019s admission policies were constitutional. Fisher had made the case that her rejected application was due to her race, as minority applicants who were supposedly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2027,"featured_media":5814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,85,14],"tags":[40325,83,31356,34,39114,78,39111,19889,40326],"class_list":["post-5813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inequality","category-politics","category-race","tag-abigail-fisher","tag-affirmative-action","tag-college-admissions","tag-education","tag-gender","tag-higher-education","tag-race","tag-scotus","tag-university-of-texas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2016\/08\/23634045785_6b7a913425_z.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5816,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813\/revisions\/5816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}