The Real Question to Ask About Our Supreme Court: Why?
TweetMaybe I have missed it, but in all the many pages and web pages I have read on the Supreme Court and its decisionmaking over the last couple of weeks, I have yet to see any serious discussion of...
View ArticleRacist “Poll Taxes” Again: Shades of Jim Crow
Tweet The U.S. has numerous anti-democratic institutions like our Supreme Court, Senate, and electoral college. One would think that the wealthy and well-off whites–who mostly run our political and...
View ArticleResearch on Racial Diversity’s Value and the University of Texas Case
Tweet Our conservative-controlled Supreme Court, an essentially undemocratic US institution, has decided to hear the Fisher v. University of Texas case that involves the use of racial characteristics...
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Transcript for Fisher v. University of Texas
TweetToday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the Fisher v. University of Texas case that seeks to overturn the consideration of race in college admissions. Joe had an excellent post about...
View ArticleCollege Presidents Weigh in on Affirmative Action in Admissions
TweetThe pending Supreme Court decision in Fisher v. University of Texas presents a new challenge to the Court’s decision of a decade earlier in the Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger cases at...
View ArticleTop Ten Percent Rule: Fisher v. University of Texas
TweetThe Top Ten Percent policy is one of the key issues in the case filed by Abigail Fisher against the University of Texas now before the Supreme Court. Fisher alleges that her rejection from the...
View ArticleThe Fisher decision misses the point: Separate and unequal
TweetA new Georgetown University report titled “Separate and Unequal: How Higher Education Reinforces the Intergenerational Reproduction of White Privilege” by Anthony Carnevale and Jeff Strohl...
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Supreme Court Moves Away from Civil Rights
TweetIn her recent dissent from the majority decision of the Supreme Court regarding a Michigan constitutional amendment banning affirmative action, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic judge to...
View ArticleWhen Interest Convergence Derails: More Challenges to Affirmative Action
TweetMany of the facts surrounding the recent challenges to affirmative action are not well known to the general public. A “perfect storm” has brought into question the survival of even modest,...
View ArticleTest-ocratic Merit vs. Democratic Merit?
TweetWhat are the benefits of a college education in a diverse democracy? Research indicates that these benefits include the ability to strengthen critical thinking, to provide students with the...
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