Asian Americans and the Shifting Politics of Race examines the
political and discursive struggles around the dismantling of
race-based admissions policies in an elite public high school in
San Francisco. The book analyzes the arguments put forth by
plaintiffs in and the media's depiction of the case, Brian Ho,
Patrick Wong, & Hilary Chen v. SFUSD. The Ho lawsuit, filed by
a group of Chinese Americans, challenged race-based admissions
policies that were intended to ensure diversity by giving special
consideration to African-American and Latino students. Robles
argues that the Ho plaintiffs exploited the dominant racial
construction of Asian Americans as model minorities to portray
themselves as victims of discrimination, and relied on contrasting
constructions of Black and Latino students as undeserving and
unqualified beneficiaries of affirmative action. The decision in
favor of the plaintiffs effectively ended school desegregation,
racial balance, and affirmative action in San Francisco. In order
to examine the consequences of the Ho decision on student
attitudes, Robles spent four years studying and observing the first
cohort of students to enter the high school after race was
eliminated from admissions considerations.
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