AMS 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Political Correctness, Culture War, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
21 Feb 2017
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Setting the stage: the changing face of american education: mandated diversity in higher education, higher education often denied people of color, and other ethnicities before the 1950s. Faith, race, ethnicity could also be a basis for discrimination: are now admitting a more diverse student body, quota: a certain number of seats for a certain number of people for a particular group. This was the case for the university of california. Accepted students had very strong and high academic credentials. Quota system ensured diversity would be significant in the. University of california: white people began questioning this practice. Started arguing that reverse racism was happening by using the 14th amendment: baake. Was not at the top of his class. Files a law suit: baake v. regents of the university of ca. Us supreme court rules quote as unconstitutional. However, it was permissible to use race as a factor that could sway admission.
