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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Past Coverage

Affirmative Action and New Demographic Realities - February 16, 2001
Making Admissions Decisions in the Name of Diversity - July 5, 2002
Asian-Americans: the Unbearable Whiteness of Being? - September 26, 2008
Misunderstanding Both Affirmative Action and Who Benefits From Racism - March 23, 2001
True Diversity Doesn't Come From Abroad - September 28, 2007

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