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The Limits Of Affirmative Action And The Illusion Of Whiteness As Property, Gino Townsend
The Limits Of Affirmative Action And The Illusion Of Whiteness As Property, Gino Townsend
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In 1993 Cheryl Harris delivers a scathing review of the effects of American slavery on the socioeconomic status of black Americans in Whiteness as Property. In her criticisms of the rulings of Brown v. Board of Education and Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, Harris uses these cases and others to show how affirmative action is meant to equalize the socioeconomic status of white and black Americans and does not conflict with the Constitution, which Harris observes through the lens of whiteness as property. Harris’ goal is to show that affirmative action is the only means …