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FarCenter

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4. These aren't foreign students --they are immigrants or children of immigrants

Reply to cprise (Reply #2)

Mon May 20, 2013, 05:11 PM

May 2013

The article goes on to say:

Other black scholars have also brought up the touchy issue of who's benefitting from affirmative action. At a reunion of Harvard's black alumni in 2004, the noted Harvard professors Lani Guinier and Henry Louis Gates Jr. pointed out that roughly two-thirds of Harvard's black undergrads at the time were immigrants or their children, or children of interracial couples.

There was also an article in the Wilson Quarterly some years back that said that the West Indian immigrant population had a higher socioeconomic standing that the average white ethnic group.

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PROFESSOR: Affirmative Action Isn't Helping The Right People [View all] FarCenter May 2013 OP

Maybe race should be removed as a consideration altogether badtoworse May 2013 #1

You can't remove it as a criterion cprise May 2013 #3

Isn't this tied to the incentivizing of foreign enrollment? cprise May 2013 #2

These aren't foreign students --they are immigrants or children of immigrants FarCenter May 2013 #4

I think afirmative action should be based on class and need. Poor people from Appalachia, an byeya May 2013 #5

At that point, 'black' isn't a race it's an ethnicity. nt geek tragedy May 2013 #6