Asian-Americans face multiple fronts in battle over affirmative action
Asian-Americans face multiple fronts in battle over affirmative action
- June 16, 2018
- Claire Jean Kim, poli sci, via The New York Times, June 16, 2018
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But that ignores the fact that black people have and continue to be discriminated
against in highly damaging ways, such as mass incarceration, police violence and segregation,
said Claire Jean Kim, a professor of Asian-American studies at the University of California,
Irvine. “The question of how Asian-Americans are positioned relative to black people
is a very serious and important question that Asian-Americans have not grappled with,”
Professor Kim said.
For the full story, please visit https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/us/affirmative-action-asian-americans.html.
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