Racial Misdirection
How Anti-affirmative Action Crusaders use Distraction and Spectacle to Promote Incomplete Conceptions of Merit and Perpetuate Racial Inequality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21582009 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Malerie Beth Barnes (0000-0001-8228-4112, University of Colorado Boulder, corresponding author), Michele S Moses (0000-0003-3428-6927, University of Colorado Boulder) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 323-346 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0895-9048 • E-ISSN: 1552-3896 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0895904820984465 |
| OpenAlex | W3114117842 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 31 |
Despite the marginal success that anti-affirmative action groups have had at paring back the use of race in college admissions practices, affirmative action has remained largely in-tact as a tool to promote diversity on college campuses. But what might happen if “diversity”—the very thing that heretofore has protected affirmative action—was used instead as proof of its supposed unfairness? In this paper, focusing on the Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard case, we will employ Political Spectacle Theory to analyze the strategies and tactics used by the anti-affirmative action groups to distract from their real aims and to divert focus away from mitigating structural inequality
Affirmative action · Criminology · Distraction · Inequality · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · Spectacle · Education, Literature, Philosophy Research · Gender Studies · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Psychology · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |