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Asian Americans and the Shifting Politics of Race - The Dismantling of Affirmative Action at an Elite Public High School (Hardcover)
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Asian Americans and the Shifting Politics of Race - The Dismantling of Affirmative Action at an Elite Public High School (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Asian Americans
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"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. The author
argues that the Ho plaintiffs exploited the dominant racial
construction of Asian Americans as model minorities to portray
themselves as victims of discrimination. Further, their discursive
strategy 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. Furthermore, in attempting to
examine the consequences of the Ho decision on student attitudes,
the author spent four year studying and observing the first cohort
of students to enter the high school after race was eliminated from
admissions considerations. This groundbreaking book documents the
impact on white, Chinese, black and Latino students' attitudes
toward views on affirmative action, racial diversity, and race
relations.
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