6) Affirmative Action
-What are the arguments for/against affirmative action?
-Why is this issue so contentious? How does it relate to questions of identity? Ethics?
Read This:
- Riley, J.L. (2025), ‘The tragedy of affirmative action’, WSJ, 2 May.
- Hsu, H. (2018), ‘The rise and fall of affirmative action’, The New Yorker, 8 October.
- Gerson, J.S. (2019), ‘The many sins of college admissions’, The New Yorker, 7 October,.
- Lee, Y.J. (2019) ‘I’m Asian‑American. Affirmative Action worked for me’, The New York Times, 9 February.
- Marksteiner, E.K. & Jolowicz, T. (2018), ‘There are many ways to boost diversity at Oxbridge’, Financial Times.
- Wong, A. (2018), ‘Lotteries may be the fairest way to fix elite‑college admissions’, The Atlantic, 1 August.
Do This:
Discussion Format:
Listen To This:
Throughline Podcast, Jay Caspian Kang on Affirmative Action:
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/14/1182149332/affirmative-action
Listen to This:
The Daily, How Affirmative Action Changed Their Lives: