Affirmative Action and Racial Equity

Foreword by Gary Orfield Part 1: Background and Evidence Submitted Chapter 1: The Legal Context and Social Science Evidence in Fisher v. University of Texas Liliana M. Garces Chapter 2: Leadership, Citizenship, and Civic Capacity: The Imperative of Racial Diversity for Realizing Higher Education’s Public Mission Susan Sturm and Olatunde C. A. Johnson Chapter 3: The Promise of Diversity in Remedying the Harms of Identity-Related Threats and Racial Isolation Allison S. Elgart, Victoria C. Plaut, Nicole Arlette Hirsch, and Eva Jefferson Paterson Chapter 4: Tejas Es Diferente: UT Austin’s Admissions Program in Light of Its Exclusionary History Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Lani Guinier, and Gerald Torres Chapter 5: Access and Diversity at the University of California in the Post-Affirmative Action Era Michal Kurlaender, Elizabeth Friedmann, and Tongshan Chang Part 2: Lessons and Strategies Moving Forward Chapter 6: The Mismatch Myth in U.S. Higher Education: A Synthesis of Empirical Evidence at the Law School and Undergraduate Levels William C. Kidder and Richard O. Lempert Chapter 7: Amplifying Asian American Presence: Contending with Dominant Racial Narratives in Fisher Mitchell James Chang Chapter 8: From Access to Outcomes: Considering the Texas Top Ten Percent Plan and Its Relationship to Student Persistence Catherine L. Horn and Stella M. Flores Chapter 9: Walking the Diversity Rationale Talk: A Call to Institutions María C. Ledesma Chapter 10: Reflections on the Diversity (Rationale) Literature: Examining the Potential and Need for Critical Diversity Research Praxis Uma M. Jayakumar and Annie S. Adamian, with Mitchell James Chang Afterword: Working Collectively Toward Racial Equity in Higher Education Policy Uma M. Jayakumar and Liliana M. Garces