ERIC Number: EJ1287513
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Mar
Pages: 24
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ISSN: ISSN-0895-9048
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Racial Misdirection: How Anti-Affirmative Action Crusaders Use Distraction and Spectacle to Promote Incomplete Conceptions of Merit and Perpetuate Racial Inequality
Educational Policy, v35 n2 p323-346 Mar 2021
Despite the marginal success that anti-affirmative action groups have had at paring back the use of race in college admissions practices, affirmative action has remained largely in-tact as a tool to promote diversity on college campuses. But what might happen if "diversity"--the very thing that heretofore has protected affirmative action--was used instead as proof of its supposed unfairness? In this paper, focusing on the "Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard" case, we will employ Political Spectacle Theory to analyze the strategies and tactics used by the anti-affirmative action groups to distract from their real aims and to divert focus away from mitigating structural inequality.
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Misconceptions, College Admission, Politics of Education, Activism, Racial Discrimination, Minority Group Students, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy, Court Litigation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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