Because of Our Success: The Changing Racial and Ethnic Ancestry of Blacks on Affirmative Action

Because of Our Success: The Changing Racial and Ethnic Ancestry of Blacks on Affirmative Action

Description

When selective colleges, universities, and graduate programs instituted affirmative action policies in the 1960s, 99.4 percent of Americans were either black or white. Not only were interracial marriages between blacks and whites illegal in over twenty states, but very few blacks were involved in interracial sexual relationships. A person’s race was determined by the application of the one-drop rule. Thus, mixed-race blacks were not allowed to self-identify their race. Rather, they were socially ascribed as black and, therefore, the concept of Black Multiracials did not exist. Also, less than one percent of blacks were foreign-born.

As a result, one of the core assumptions upon which affirmative action was based was that the predominant ancestries of the beneficiaries would be children of two American-born black parents (“Ascendant Blacks”). However, Black Multiracials and foreign-born blacks and their children (“Black Immigrants”) now constitute a growing majority of the black students at many selective higher education programs. Further, the percentages of Black Multiracials and Black Immigrants among those blacks approaching college age are rapidly increasing. Thus, in an ironic twist of fate, America is ethnically cleansing from the campuses of its selective higher education institutions Ascendant Blacks. Not only were they the primary group that affirmative action policies were intended to benefit, but their ascendency out of slavery and segregation made possible the increases in mixed-race sexual relationships, Black Multiracials, foreign-born blacks, and Black Immigrants. This book discusses this ethnic cleansing of Ascendant Blacks and its implications for American society, and suggests possible ways to address the problem.

ISBN

9781611634440

Publication Date

2014

Publisher

Carolina Academic Press

City

Durham, NC

Keywords

Civil Rights, Race and the Law, Affirmative action programs in education-United States, Racially mixed people-United States, Social justice-United States, United States-Race relations

Disciplines

Civil Rights and Discrimination | Education Law | Law | Race and Ethnicity

Comments

Full bibliographic details here.

Copies available in the Jerome Hall Law Library, LC 213.52 .B76 2014

Because of Our Success: The Changing Racial and Ethnic Ancestry of Blacks on Affirmative Action

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