Racial Stereotypes About Asian Americans and the Challenge to Race-Conscious Admissions in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard

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Abstract

In an unprecedented collective effort by the social science community, 1,241 social scientists and scholars, who extensively study education issues relating to Asian Americans, college access, and race in postsecondary institutions and society, filed an amicus curiae brief in support of Harvard in the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard case. In this article, the authors summarize the arguments, grounded in decades of social science research, that were presented to the U.S. Supreme Court. The authors outline the racial stereotypes about students of color and the myth of an Asian penalty that Students for Fair Admissions’ arguments rely on and examine the Court’s decision given the social science evidence supporting the constitutionality of Harvard’s race-conscious admissions process.

Authors

• Nicole Ngaosi, University of Texas at Austin

• Mike Hoa Nguyen, University of California - Los Angeles

• Emelyn Martinez Morales, New York University

• Steph Dudowitz, New York University

• Douglas H. Lee, Colorado State University

• Liliana M. Garces, University of Texas at Austin

• OiYan A. Poon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Janelle Wong, University of Maryland