Word: asianized
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...supposed" motivation behind past academic racism and present-day scholarly racial prejudice remains the same: protecting the United States (i.e., white Americans and some Asian groups) from the degenerate effects which would stem or have stemmed from letting blacks and Latinos into the body politic and social contract. Mansfield, Herrnstein, Murray and D'Souza argue that the academic rigors of society and Americans' competitiveness is decreasing because of the large number of undesirables and unqualifieds entering universities and jobs all around the country at the expense of bright whites and Asians. The argument reminds one of the segregationist platform...
Finally, a word on Mansfield's discussion of "Asians." Asian American communities are deeply ambivalent on the issue of affirmative action, but one thing is clear: they do not wish to be used as rhetorical pawns by its (white) opponents. In perpetuating the myth of Asian Americans as a "model minority," Mansfield ignores the socioeconomic diversity of Asian America. Hmong, Laotian and Cambodian American communities, for example, have higher rates of poverty on average than African American and Latino communities, and Filipino Americans--the second largest Asian American group--are underrepresented at nearly all the nation's top schools. Mansfield...
Second, and more significant, Rudenstine's rosy picture of Harvard's history with affirmative action is grossly misleading. He mentions not a single word about the two-year Justice Department investigation of Harvard's admissions policies with regard to Asian Americans, conducted from 1988 to 1990. This major federal review, the biggest ever of the university's admissions policies, found that "Asian American applicants have been admitted at a significantly lower rate than white applicants" and found that admissions office readers frequently wrote stereotyping comments on the applications of Asian American students. These remarks included: "so typical of other Asian...
Sewell Chan '98 is co-chair-elect of the Academic Affairs Committee of the Harvard Foundation and is co-president of the Asian American Association...
...hands of the Red Guards, for instance? Since then the whole vast collection has remained in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, carefully conserved but stingily displayed. Thirty-five years ago, a sampling was shown in the U.S., provoking a new level of interest in the study of Asian...