October 19, 2007

The Complexities of Discrimination and Diversity

To the Editor:

Richard A. Tapia's "True Diversity Doesn't Come From Abroad" (Diversity in Academe, September 28) contains troubling implications: that people of Asian descent cannot be real Americans, or that they do not face significant discrimination.

It is true that affirmative-action policies have changed significantly, in large part because of legal constraints. Rather than having remedial or redistributive purposes, the programs have come to emphasize diversity in an

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