The retreat from race : Asian-American admission and racial politics / Dana Y. Takagi

By: Takagi, Dana Y [author]
Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 1992Description: xiv, 246pages -Content type: text Media type: n Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0813519144Subject(s): Discrimination in higher education -- United States -- Admission -- Case studies. | Universities and colleges -- United States -- Admission -- Case studies. | Asian American college students -- Case studies. DDC classification: 370.19342
Contents:
1. Asian Americans and Racial Politics -- 2. Clamor at the Gates: Discrimination, 1983-1986 -- 3. Diversity, Merit, and the Model Minority: "Good But Not Exceptional Students" -- 4. The Tyranny of Facts: State and Federal Reviews -- 5. Affirmative Action and Its Discontents: Asian Victims and Black Villains -- 6. The Race for Class: The New Affirmative Action -- 7. The Retreat from Race.
Summary: Charges by Asian Americans that the top universities in the United States used quotas to limit the enrollment of Asian-American students developed into one of the most vociferous public controversies in higher education since the Bakke case. In The Retreat from Race, Dana Takagi follows the debates over Asian-American admissions at Berkeley, UCLA, Brown, Stanford, Harvard, and Princeton. She explains important developments in the politics of race: changes in ethnic coalitions, reconstruction of the debate over affirmative action, and the conservative challenge to the civil rights agenda of the 1960s. Takagi examines the history and significance of the Asian-American admissions controversy on American race relations both inside and outside higher education. Takagi's central argument is that the Asian-American admissions controversy encouraged a subtle but important shift in affirmative action policy away from racial preferences toward class preferences. She calls this development a retreat from race. Takagi suggests that the retreat signals not only an actual policy shift but also the increasing reluctance on the part of intellectuals, politicians, and policy analysts to identify and address social problems as explicitly racial problems. Moving beyond the university setting, Takagi explores the political significance of the retreat from race by linking Asian-American admissions to other controversies in higher education and in American politics, including the debates over political correctness and multiculturalism. In her assessment, the retreat from race is likely to fail at its promise of easing racial tension and promoting racial equality.
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1. Asian Americans and Racial Politics --
2. Clamor at the Gates: Discrimination, 1983-1986 --
3. Diversity, Merit, and the Model Minority: "Good But Not Exceptional Students" --
4. The Tyranny of Facts: State and Federal Reviews --
5. Affirmative Action and Its Discontents: Asian Victims and Black Villains --
6. The Race for Class: The New Affirmative Action --
7. The Retreat from Race.

Charges by Asian Americans that the top universities in the United States used quotas to limit the enrollment of Asian-American students developed into one of the most vociferous public controversies in higher education since the Bakke case. In The Retreat from Race, Dana Takagi follows the debates over Asian-American admissions at Berkeley, UCLA, Brown, Stanford, Harvard, and Princeton. She explains important developments in the politics of race: changes in ethnic coalitions, reconstruction of the debate over affirmative action, and the conservative challenge to the civil rights agenda of the 1960s. Takagi examines the history and significance of the Asian-American admissions controversy on American race relations both inside and outside higher education. Takagi's central argument is that the Asian-American admissions controversy encouraged a subtle but important shift in affirmative action policy away from racial preferences toward class preferences. She calls this development a retreat from race. Takagi suggests that the retreat signals not only an actual policy shift but also the increasing reluctance on the part of intellectuals, politicians, and policy analysts to identify and address social problems as explicitly racial problems. Moving beyond the university setting, Takagi explores the political significance of the retreat from race by linking Asian-American admissions to other controversies in higher education and in American politics, including the debates over political correctness and multiculturalism. In her assessment, the retreat from race is likely to fail at its promise of easing racial tension and promoting racial equality.

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