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The mourning after affirmative action: a composite counterstory about whiteness as property, fugitive pedagogy, and possibility
Ist Teil von
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 2024-04, Vol.43 (3), p.425-441
Ort / Verlag
Birmingham: Emerald Publishing Limited
Erscheinungsjahr
2024
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Beschreibungen/Notizen
PurposeIn the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision to effectively end race-conscious admissions practices across the nation, this paper highlights the law’s commitment to whiteness and antiblackness, invites us to mourn and to connect to possibility.Design/methodology/approachDrawing from the theoretical contributions of Cheryl Harris, Jarvis Givens and Chezare Warren, as well as the wisdom of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissenting opinion, this paper utilizes CRT composite counterstory methodology to illuminate the antiblack reality of facially “race-neutral” admissions.FindingsBy manifesting the impossible situation that SFFA and the Supreme Court’s majority seek to normalize, the composite counterstory illuminates how Justice Jackson’s hypothetical enacts a fugitive pedagogy within a dominant legal system committed to whiteness as property; invites us to mourn, to connect to possibility and to remain committed to freedom as an intergenerational project that is inherently humanizing.Originality/valueIn a sobering moment where we face the end of race-conscious admissions, this paper uniquely grapples with the contradictions of affirmative action as minimally effective while also radically disruptive.