The Mourning After Affirmative Action: Reflecting on the Dissenting Opinions, Anti-Blackness, and Possibility

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session will emphasize how the Court’s dismissal of close to five decades of legal
precedent, affirming the value in the limited use of race in college admissions, unearths evidence of antiblackness, while simultaneously ignoring racial injustice and obscuring educational possibilities. We endeavor to (re)cover affirmative action’s pivotal history, as well as to (re)connect to possibility and inspire new liberation movements.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Joi A. Spencer, University of California - Riverside

Participants

• Uma Mazyck Jayakumar, University of California - Riverside

• María C. Ledesma, San José State University

Discussant

• David O. Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago