Charging Harvard of imposing a racial penalty and a de facto quota on Asians, SFFA’s proposed solution is to retreat from race: to eliminate the consideration of race and ethnicity in all admissions decisions, which, in turn, would effectively eliminate affirmative action. Invoking Harvard’s past practice of using subjective measures like character to limit the number of Jewish students in the 1920s, the Students for Fair Admissions ( SFFA) allege that the university is now repeating its ugly history with Asians. 1 The plaintiffs allege that Harvard discriminates against Asian applicants by holding them to higher academic standards and rating them poorly on personal characteristics such as “likeability,” “fit,” and “courage” in order to suppress their rate of admission. Harvard, and no issue has galvanized them like affirmative action. No recent court case has propelled Asian Americans into the political sphere like Students for Fair Admissions v. As fears of the coronavirus arrested the United States, so too has the rise in anti-Asian hate. Competence, moral worth, and respectability politics, however, are no safeguards against racism and xenophobia. Presumed competent and morally deserving, Asian Americans subscribe to the stereotype, and wield it to their advantage. Immigration has remade Asian Americans from “unassimilable to exceptional,” and wedged them between underrepresented minorities who stand to gain most from the policy and the advantaged majority who stands to lose most because of it. Harvard and focus on Asian Americans’ role in it. Bridging theory and research on immigration, stereotypes, and boundaries, I provide a holistic portrait of SFFA v. Asian Americans have taken center stage in the latest battle over affirmative action, yet their voices have been muted in favor of narra tives that paint them as victims of affirmative action who ardently oppose the policy. No court case in recent history has propelled Asian Americans into the political sphere like Students for Fair Admissions v.
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