From Jim Crow to Affirmative Action and Back Again: A Critical Race Discussion of Racialized Rationales and Access to Higher Education

Authors

Tara Yosso, University of Santa Barbara
Laurence Parker, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignFollow
Daniel Solorzano, University of California, Los Angeles
Marvin Lynn, Portland State UniversityFollow

Published In

Review of Research in Education

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Citation

Publication Date

1-1-2004

Abstract

As part of his 1978 opinion in the Bakke v. Regents of the University of California case, Justice Blackmun’s quotation speaks to the persistence of “problem of the color line” that W. E. B. DuBois identified in 1903. In a letter to Judge Friedman of the U.S. 6th District Court in Detroit, Michigan, the African American high school student’s remarks express her worry that the courts will eliminate the single policy in education that aims to account for race. Her comments refer to the University of Michigan’s race-conscious admission policy, challenged at the undergraduate and law school levels by White female candidates denied admission to the selective campus (see Gratz v. Bollinger, 2003; Grutter v. Bollinger, 2003). Taken together, these quotations reveal the “color-line problem” that undergirds affirmative action debates in higher education

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*At the time of publication, Marvin Lynn was affiliated with the University of Maryland at College Park.

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https://doi.org/10.3102/0091732x028001001

DOI

10.3102/0091732x028001001

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http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/21744

Citation Details

Yosso, T. J., Parker, L., Solorzano, D. G., & Lynn, M. (2004). Chapter 1: From Jim Crow to affirmative action and back again: A critical race discussion of racialized rationales and access to higher education. Review of Research in Education, 28(1), 1-25.