Supreme Court examines admissions: Does affirmative action hurt Asians?

Alia Wong, "Affirmative Action Critics Paint Asian Americans as the 'Model Minority.' Why That's False," USA Today, Nov. 6, 2022.

The role of Asian Americans in the dismantling of affirmative action in the U.S. is relatively recent. The gains and burdens that it has imposed on various AAPI subgroups is are not uniform. Nor are Asians necessarily those likely to gain most from a post-affirmative action jurisprudence. (The organizers and finaciers of the SFAA litigation are the Caucasian litigant and her backer in the Fisher v. University of Texas case.)

Indeed, the gains and burdens of affirmative action as implemented, even for African Americans, has been mixed. See, e.g., "The Racial Bribe--Let's Give in Back" in Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, 303-312 (2010).

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