{"id":322,"date":"2015-11-08T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T00:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/?p=322"},"modified":"2015-10-03T22:54:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T22:54:58","slug":"affirmative-action-is-it-still-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/2015\/11\/08\/affirmative-action-is-it-still-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Affirmative Action: Is It Still Necessary?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a 2003 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to uphold affirmative action and said it expected that in 25 years, “the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary.”\u00a0Here’s a conversation<\/a> between\u00a0Boyce Watkins, assistant professor at Syracuse University, and\u00a0Linda Chavez, chair of Center for Equal Opportunity, about the 2013 SCOTUS\u00a0case revisiting\u00a0University of Texas, that (at the time)\u00a0could ban affirmative action in higher education once and for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a 2003 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to uphold affirmative action and said it expected that in 25 years, “the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary.”\u00a0Here’s a conversation between\u00a0Boyce Watkins, assistant professor at Syracuse University, and\u00a0Linda Chavez, chair of Center for Equal Opportunity, about the 2013 SCOTUS\u00a0case revisiting\u00a0University of Texas, … Continue reading Affirmative Action: Is It Still Necessary?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[21,87,27,18,55,4,17],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-audio","category-authored-post","tag-american-history","tag-audio","tag-education","tag-interview","tag-minorities","tag-race","tag-reparations","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}