NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Imperialistic Reclamation of Higher Education Diversity Initiatives through Semantic Co-Option and Concession
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Nishi, Naomi W. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2022
Affirmative Action in higher education exemplifies interest convergence, and beyond this, interest divergence and imperialistic reclamation. Diversity initiatives, such as the Inclusive Excellence initiative, have adopted key strategies and reasoning developed in Affirmative Action Supreme Court cases. This paper shows how semantic concessions and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Affirmative Action, Court Litigation, College Admission
Examining the Paradox between Dismantling "De Jure" Segregation and Affirmative Action: Implications from Contemporary Higher Education Case Law
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Boykin, Tiffany Fountaine; Palmer, Robert T. – Journal of Negro Education, 2016
The racial diversification of America's higher education system has been at the forefront of legal argument for the last seventy-five years. Ground-breaking decisions birthed the inclusion of affirmative action policies in higher education after the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In recent years, both the utility and constitutionality…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Racial Segregation, Affirmative Action, Higher Education
Growing C-D-R (Cedar): Working the Intersections of Interest Convergence and Whiteness as Property in the Affirmative Action Legal Debate
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Thompson Dorsey, Dana N.; Venzant Chambers, Terah T. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2014
In this article we extend Bell's work on interest convergence by using Harris' work on whiteness as property to articulate a cycle of interest convergence, interest divergence, and imperialistic reclamation, or convergence-divergence-reclamation (C-D-R, pronounced "cedar"). We then apply the C-D-R cycle lens to the evolution of federal…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Race, Admission Criteria, College Admission
Preferential Admissions Revisited: Some Reflections on DeFunis and Bakke.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
O'Neil, Robert M. – Journal of College and University Law, 1987
The Bakke case concerning preferential college admissions and the DeFunis case testing the constitutionality of a minority admissions program are reexamined and contrasted for insights into minority-preference and race-conscious remedy issues. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Administration, College Admission, Constitutional Law
After "DeFunis": Affirmative Action and the Jewish Community. Analysis, No. 46.
Frank, Steven – 1974
The problems raised by the development of affirmative action and by the Jewish community's response to the complex social and legal issue are analyzed. The analysis focuses upon: initiation of affirmative action by presidential decree and its interpretation and implementation by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in the areas of…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, College Admission
Bakke, DeFunis, and Minority Admissions. The Quest for Equal Opportunity.
Sindler, Allan P. – 1978
The public policy and legal issues surrounding preferential admissions of minorities in higher education and the politics and human drama of the controversy are reviewed and analyzed in this book. Focus is on the court cases of Marco DeFunis against the University of Washington law school and Allan Bakke against the University of California…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Admission Criteria, College Admission