Chris Reed: If court kills affirmative action, a smart alternative is waiting in the wings [Opinion]
on a core reason: Many Asian Americans saw using anything but academic performance in admission decisions as “antithetical to American values.”
If the conservative majority of the nation’s highest court and most voters in the nation’s largest and perhaps most progressive state no longer support considering race in college admissions, then perhaps those who hope for a more just nation should fear a new era ofof racial issues, to use the loaded Nixon administration term.
So is there still a way forward — a serious alternative to affirmative action that is much more likely to withstand legal challenges while still providing a potent tool to address historical wrongs? Absolutely. For years, a group of progressive academics have built the case for giving admission preferences to students from low-income families.
Given the income gaps between White families and those of Black and Latino descent, “any admissions policy that considers wealth will de facto offer the school a path toward racial diversity,” Peter Dreier, Richard D. Kahlenberg and Melvin L. Oliverin a powerful February essay in Slate. “Racial preferences have been effective but controversial because they apply very differently to working-class and lower-middle-class people of different races.
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