Uma Jayakumar

[Uma Jayakumar @DrUJayakumar]

“Separate but equal” then. “Race neutral” now. Read my article about the Supreme Court’s decision on #affirmativeaction 👇🏽

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

"A century from now, scholars of racism will look back at today’s Supreme Court decision on affirmative action the way we now look back at Gong Lum v. Rice—as a judicial decision based in legal fantasy," @DrUJayakumar and @DrIbram write: https://t.co/ZiKbOhkT8D

[Uma Jayakumar @DrUJayakumar]

It’s taken a minute to sink in, but feels great to help Justice Sotomayor tell Thomas to fuck off

https://t.co/NuS6Dzp46q

[Uma Jayakumar @DrUJayakumar]

Race will continue to count in college admissions, but only if you are white. @DrIbram X. Kendi and I explain in our @TheAtlantic essay how everyday college admissions metrics work to the advantage of white and wealthy students.
https://t.co/1dNdLBJeXc

[Uma Jayakumar @DrUJayakumar]

Now that “racial neutrality” is the doctrine of the land, as “separate but equal” was a century ago, we need a new legal movement to expose its fantastical nature.
https://t.co/1dNdLBJeXc

[Uma Jayakumar @DrUJayakumar]

The Supreme Court’s “race-neutral” decision on race in college admissions is a cover-up, like the Plessy v Ferguson “separate but equal” decision was in 1896.
https://t.co/1dNdLBJeXc

[Uma Jayakumar @DrUJayakumar]

(3 cont’d.) (e.g., I read a compelling heart wrenching essay once about the struggle to learn the Ukulele)— in other words, essays, like most everyday “race neutral” admissions metrics, are biased toward white and wealthy applicants.

https://t.co/b9VwbEA9FD

[Uma Jayakumar @DrUJayakumar]

This is an example of the legal fantasy @DrIbram and I described in @TheAtlantic turning into on-the-ground fantasy, since in reality:

[see thread 👇🏽]

[Soledad O'Brien @soledadobrien]

Interesting:

[Uma Jayakumar @DrUJayakumar]

(3) students with greater inherited access to wealthy, resourced-schools and low student-counselor ratios get more coaching with college essay + hire external essay writing coaches to leverage any hardship

https://t.co/b9VwbEA9FD

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

The term "race conscious," as a descriptor for affirmative action, is as flawed as the term "race neutral" for the other admission metrics, as @DrUJayakumar and I explain @TheAtlantic. "Race conscious" reinforces the "race neutral" and "colorblind" frame.
https://t.co/EecYSiZHoL

[Uma Jayakumar @DrUJayakumar]

Race will continue to count in college admissions, but only if you are white.

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Before you begin your thinkpiece, the Supreme Court DID NOT strike down Affirmative Action

Admission preferences for legacies, donors, employee families and special recommendations are still allowed

The Court struck down Affirmative Action For everyone except WHITE PEOPLE

[Uma Jayakumar @DrUJayakumar]

U. Jaya-kumar, Why Are All Black Students Still Sitting Together in the Proverbial College Cafeteria?, Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA (Oct. 2015); see also Brief for Respondent Students in No. 21-707, p. 42

[Uma Jayakumar @DrUJayakumar]

“Affinity-based activities actually help racial minorities improve their visibility on college campuses and ‘decreas[e] racial stigma and vulnerability to stereotypes’ caused by
‘conditions of racial isolation’ and ‘tokenization.’”

[Uma Jayakumar @DrUJayakumar]

“Justice Sotomayor has persuasively established that nothing in the Constitution or Title VI prohibits institutions from taking race into account to ensure the racial diversity of admits in higher education. I join her opinion without…

[Uma Jayakumar @DrUJayakumar]

https://t.co/1dNdLBJeXc

[Uma Jayakumar @DrUJayakumar]

“If anti-affirmative-action litigants and judges were really supportive of “race neutrality”—if they were really against “racial preferences”—then they would be going after regular admissions practices. …

[Uma Jayakumar @DrUJayakumar]

…But they are not, because the regular admissions metrics benefit white and wealthy students.”

[Uma Jayakumar @DrUJayakumar]

https://t.co/b9VwbEA9FD

[Uma Jayakumar @DrUJayakumar]

“[The Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action] is indicative of a larger fantasy percolating throughout society: that white Americans, who, on average, stand at the more advantageous end of nearly every racial inequity, are the primary victims of racism.”

[Uma Jayakumar @DrUJayakumar]

https://t.co/e8Qc40IcLB

[Uma Jayakumar @DrUJayakumar]

“To frame policies as ‘race neutral’ or ‘not racist’ or ‘race blind’ because they don’t have racial language — or because the policy makers deny racist intent—is akin to framing Jim Crow’s grandfather clauses and poll taxes…

[Uma Jayakumar @DrUJayakumar]

‘Race Neutral’ Is the New ‘Separate but Equal’ by Dr. Uma Mazyck Jayakumar and Dr. Ibram X. Kendi @DrIbram @TheAtlantic