Very interesting article about who affirmative action actually helps.
(NB: Just because I forward a story doesn't necessarily mean that I
advocate it.)
http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/02/01/black
There seems to be an interesting flaw, however. The worry is that
affirmative action disproportionately assists black immigrants into
elite schools rather than "descendents of slaves" as it is put by the
Harvard professor who has launched this concern. But the region of the
world that the plurality of black immigrants in elite schools comes from
is NOT Africa (28.6%), but the Caribbean (43.1%). While these folks may
not be the US-born blacks that affirmative action was originally
targeting, they are almost certainly "descendents of slaves."
Regards,
--
Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada
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http://www.yorku.ca/christo
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