Situating Asian Americans in the political discourse on affirmative action

Representations

Volumn 55, Issue , 1996, Pages 155-162

  Omi, Michael ^a   Takagi, Dana Y ^a  

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EID: 0007330309     PISSN: 07346018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/rep.1996.55.1.99p0449o     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. Tomás Almaguer, Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California (Berkeley, 1994)
2. Gary Y. Okihiro, Margins and Maintreams: Asians in American History and Culture (Seattle, 1994), chap. 2
3. Dan Cauldwell, "The Negroization of the Chinese Stereotype in California," Southern California Historical Quarterly 1 (June 1971)
4. "Success Story: Outwhiting the Whites," Newsweek, 21 June 1971
5. Pete Wilson, "Why Racial Preferences Must End," San Francisco Chronicle, 18 January 1996, A21
6. Richard Bernstein, "Moves Under Way in California to Overturn Higher Education's Affirmative Action Policy," New York Times, 25 January 1995, B8
7. By rearticulation we mean "the process of redefinition of political interests and identities through a process of recombination of familiar ideas and values in hitherto unrecognized ways." Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s, 2d ed. (New York, 1994), 163 n. 8
8. A particularly explosive example is the Allen Hughes and Albert Hughes film Menace II Society (1993)
9. This position is best articulated by Thomas Sowell in his numerous publications. For the most current example, see his Race and Culture: A World View (New York, 1994)
10. Dinesh D'Souza, "The Failure of the 'Cruel Compassion,'" the Chronicle of Higher Education, 15 September 1995, B1
11. Yumi Wilson, "Wilson Explains His Affirmative Action Plans," San Francisco Chronicle, 1 June 1995, A16
12. SP-1 and SP-2 are the two UC Regents resolutions passed on 20 July 1995 that ban the use of race and gender preferences in, respectively, admissions and employment practices at the University of California. The text of SP-1 is reprinted as an appendix to this issue on page 184
13. Indeed, this imagery of the meeting was carried by all the major newspapers the following day-the New York Times, the San Francisco Examiner, the San Francisco Chronicle-and depicted in television reports as well
14. "Affirmative-Action Aftermath," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 4 August 1995, A18
15. Andrew Hacker, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal (New York, 1992), chap. 8, esp. 9-10. Hacker justifies his bipolar framework by suggesting that over time Asian Americans may be absorbed into a new expansive definition of what "white" is