{"id":5383,"date":"2004-12-21T16:43:32","date_gmt":"2004-12-21T16:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5383"},"modified":"2021-06-09T23:09:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T23:09:43","slug":"more-on-affirmative-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/12\/21\/more-on-affirmative-action\/","title":{"rendered":"More on affirmative action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COMMENTARY<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/opinion\/la-oe-sander20dec20,1,4797078.story\">House of Cards for Black Law Students<\/a><br \/>\nBy Richard H. Sander<br \/>\nRichard H. Sander is a professor of law at UCLA. His article on this subject is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review.<br \/>\nDecember 20, 2004<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Traditionally, critics of affirmative action have focused either on its unfairness to those groups that don&#8217;t receive preferences (usually whites and Asians) or on the inherent conflict between racial preferences and the legal ideal of colorblindness.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last few years, however, a new and potentially even more damaging line of inquiry has emerged: the idea that racial preferences may materially harm the very people they are intended to benefit.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, researchers Stephen Cole and Elinor Barber found that racial preferences at Ivy League colleges had a large and negative effect on the academic aspirations of black students.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMMENTARY House of Cards for Black Law Students By Richard H. Sander Richard H. Sander is a professor of law at UCLA. His article on this subject is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,63,141],"tags":[127],"class_list":["post-5383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mixed-blog","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-affirmative-action-and-diversity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1oP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5649,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions\/5649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}