ERIC Number: EJ1395753
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-1361-3324
EISSN: EISSN-1470-109X
Exploring the Color-Evasive Hustle 2.0 and Asian Americans within U.S. Higher Education Race-Conscious Admissions Oral Arguments
Ward, LaWanda W. M.
Race, Ethnicity and Education, v26 n7 p834-850 2023
Ongoing sociolegal conflicts over affirmative action in race-conscious admissions in U.S. higher education have significant modern-day relevance. This article, informed mainly by Asian American women's scholarship, explores discourse in U.S. Supreme Court rulings and oral arguments and how litigation actors continue to recycle this discourse in more recent legal strategies that maintain and normalize inequitable access to selective, historically White institutions. The author revisited and extended critical race feminist Kimberlé Crenshaw's metaphor, the "Colorblind Hustle," which describes the anti-affirmative action strategy of deploying Black spokespersons as advocates for eradicating policies that promote racial equity. The author proposes a new metaphor, the "Color-Evasive Hustle 2.0," to describe current anti-affirmative action strategies with Asian Americans as plaintiffs in a 2018 lawsuit against Harvard University. Finally, this article elevates interdisciplinary scholarship and legal strategies with potential to expose the Color-Evasive Hustle 2.0 and affirm and sustain educational equity.
Descriptors: College Admission, Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, Asian American Students, Oral Language, Persuasive Discourse, Critical Race Theory, Feminism, Access to Education, Predominantly White Institutions, Educational Policy, Social Justice, Racism, African American Students, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Misconceptions, Inclusion
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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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