The article, “The Origins of Race-conscious Affirmative Action in Undergraduate Admissions” was written by Lisa Stulberg and Anthony Chen. Lisa Stulberg is an associate professor and director in the Sociology of Education program at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Anthony Chen is the associate professor in the Sociology and Institute for Policy Research program at Northwestern University. His interest in American political development was what prompted him to co-write an article on affirmative action with Stulberg. The article appeared in the American Sociology Association and was issued by SAGE Publication, a publication whose goal is to help disseminate knowledge and educate the global
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Affirmative action are policies that help give leverage to minorities that were oppressed in the past. Through these policies, minorities such as Blacks or African American will have the chance to change their socio and rise from the affect of their oppression. Most scholars believed in the dominant theory, which attributes this phenomena to the campus protests and urban riots in the North during the late 1960s. According to the view, undergraduate universities only implemented affirmative action because they fear it would cause racial violence and disruptions on campus (Stulberg and Chen 37). However, there are very little evidence to support this theory, which leads to the question: what prompted all these universities to adopt affirmative action policies? Stulberg and Chen believed that the real reason for the rise of affirmative action was the southern based civil rights movement. To test their theory, Stulberg and Chen analyzed 17 different non-southern universities to identify the year they adopted these affirmative action policies. They split the schools in the sample into categories, the “early adopters” and the “late adopter.” The early adopters were schools that adopted these policies before 1964 and the late adopters were the ones that adopted it after 1964 (Stulberg …show more content…
These policies had appeared as early as the 1950s and began to increase after the Civil Rights movement. The Civil Rights movement was an indirect cause because it helped inspire admission administrator to make social changes. Through the protest and riots in the North, the affirmative action programs expanded and became more significant (Stulberg 47). And as the numbers of universities with affirmative action started to increase, we also started to see more diversity within the school campus. There is a correlation between the two because affirmative action policies reduced the amount of discrimination within the admission process, allowing more minorities the chance to attend these prestigious universities. There used to be a huge discrepancy between the number of White students vs the number of Black (and other minorities) attendance, however over time we started to see the gap close. Affirmative Action policies is taking us one step closer to a desegregated
Affirmative action are policies that help give leverage to minorities that were oppressed in the past. Through these policies, minorities such as Blacks or African American will have the chance to change their socio and rise from the affect of their oppression. Most scholars believed in the dominant theory, which attributes this phenomena to the campus protests and urban riots in the North during the late 1960s. According to the view, undergraduate universities only implemented affirmative action because they fear it would cause racial violence and disruptions on campus (Stulberg and Chen 37). However, there are very little evidence to support this theory, which leads to the question: what prompted all these universities to adopt affirmative action policies? Stulberg and Chen believed that the real reason for the rise of affirmative action was the southern based civil rights movement. To test their theory, Stulberg and Chen analyzed 17 different non-southern universities to identify the year they adopted these affirmative action policies. They split the schools in the sample into categories, the “early adopters” and the “late adopter.” The early adopters were schools that adopted these policies before 1964 and the late adopters were the ones that adopted it after 1964 (Stulberg …show more content…
These policies had appeared as early as the 1950s and began to increase after the Civil Rights movement. The Civil Rights movement was an indirect cause because it helped inspire admission administrator to make social changes. Through the protest and riots in the North, the affirmative action programs expanded and became more significant (Stulberg 47). And as the numbers of universities with affirmative action started to increase, we also started to see more diversity within the school campus. There is a correlation between the two because affirmative action policies reduced the amount of discrimination within the admission process, allowing more minorities the chance to attend these prestigious universities. There used to be a huge discrepancy between the number of White students vs the number of Black (and other minorities) attendance, however over time we started to see the gap close. Affirmative Action policies is taking us one step closer to a desegregated