Word: hyun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Helen Hyun, a third-year doctoral candidate at the GSE, spoke of her dissertation research on class-based affirmative action at the University of California at Berkeley...
...Hyun said conservatives have tried to portray affirmative action as a conflict between "meritocracy and egalitarianism," and have used Asian-Americans as "poster children" because some have accused the [University of California] system of capping Asian-American enrollment through quotas...
...seems that class-based affirmative action favors whites and Asians," Hyun said...
...Hyun said Asian-American are hard to classify because they tend to be "bimodally distributed" along ethnic lines. For instance, the average per capita income of Laotian-Americans is $4,254, compared with $22,079 for Filipino-Americans...
...Hyun said the California effort to end affirmative action is misguided...