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The Admission Of Legacy Blacks, Angela Onwuachi-Willig

Vanderbilt Law Review

Three years ago, the New York Times reported the results of a study that revealed that two-thirds of the black population at Harvard College consisted of first-generation black immigrant students in the United States, second-generation black American students, and mixed-race students with one black parent. Additional studies have confirmed that the same phenomenon exists at other elite institutions, which include schools such as Columbia, Duke, Georgetown, Northwestern, Oberlin, the University of California- Berkeley, the University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the University of Pennsylvania, Smith, Stanford, and Yale.

For many of those interested in how affirmative action …

Without Color Of Law: The Losing Race Against Colorblindness In Michigan, Khaled Ali Beydoun

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

This Essay examines affirmative action, while discussing its fall in California, Washington State, and ultimately Michigan.