Uma Jayakumar

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Uma Jayakumar

Uma Jayakumar

@DrUJayakumar

Katılım Nisan 2023
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Uma Jayakumar@DrUJayakumar·
Race will continue to count in college admissions, but only if you are white. @DrIbram X. Kendi and I explain in our @TheAtlantic essay how everyday college admissions metrics work to the advantage of white and wealthy students. Bit.ly/umajatlantic
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The Supreme Court’s “race-neutral” decision on race in college admissions is a cover-up, like the Plessy v Ferguson “separate but equal” decision was in 1896. Bit.ly/umajatlantic
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Uma Jayakumar@DrUJayakumar·
Now that “racial neutrality” is the doctrine of the land, as “separate but equal” was a century ago, we need a new legal movement to expose its fantastical nature. Bit.ly/umajatlantic
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Uma Jayakumar@DrUJayakumar·
(3 cont’d.) (e.g., I read a compelling heart wrenching essay once about the struggle to learn the Ukulele)— in other words, essays, like most everyday “race neutral” admissions metrics, are biased toward white and wealthy applicants. bit.ly/umajatlantic
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Uma Jayakumar@DrUJayakumar·
(3) students with greater inherited access to wealthy, resourced-schools and low student-counselor ratios get more coaching with college essay + hire external essay writing coaches to leverage any hardship bit.ly/umajatlantic
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Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi@ibramxk·
The term "race conscious," as a descriptor for affirmative action, is as flawed as the term "race neutral" for the other admission metrics, as @DrUJayakumar and I explain @TheAtlantic. "Race conscious" reinforces the "race neutral" and "colorblind" frame. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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Uma Jayakumar@DrUJayakumar·
U. Jaya-kumar, Why Are All Black Students Still Sitting Together in the Proverbial College Cafeteria?, Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA (Oct. 2015); see also Brief for Respondent Students in No. 21-707, p. 42
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“Affinity-based activities actually help racial minorities improve their visibility on college campuses and ‘decreas[e] racial stigma and vulnerability to stereotypes’ caused by ‘conditions of racial isolation’ and ‘tokenization.’”
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“Justice Sotomayor has persuasively established that nothing in the Constitution or Title VI prohibits institutions from taking race into account to ensure the racial diversity of admits in higher education. I join her opinion without…

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Uma Jayakumar@DrUJayakumar·
…But they are not, because the regular admissions metrics benefit white and wealthy students.”
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Uma Jayakumar@DrUJayakumar·
“If anti-affirmative-action litigants and judges were really supportive of “race neutrality”—if they were really against “racial preferences”—then they would be going after regular admissions practices. …
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Uma Jayakumar@DrUJayakumar·
“[The Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action] is indicative of a larger fantasy percolating throughout society: that white Americans, who, on average, stand at the more advantageous end of nearly every racial inequity, are the primary victims of racism.”
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Uma Jayakumar@DrUJayakumar·
‘Race Neutral’ Is the New ‘Separate but Equal’ by Dr. Uma Mazyck Jayakumar and Dr. Ibram X. Kendi @DrIbram @TheAtlantic
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“To frame policies as ‘race neutral’ or ‘not racist’ or ‘race blind’ because they don’t have racial language — or because the policy makers deny racist intent—is akin to framing Jim Crow’s grandfather clauses and poll taxes…
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