 Royce Hall, University of California, Los Angeles An affirmative action bake sale is a controversial campus event used by student groups to illustrate their criticism of affirmative action policies, especially as they relate to college and graduate school admissions. The goal of the technique is to "bring the issue of affirmative action down to everyday terms," according to one bake sale student leader.[1] Download high resolution version (2206x1606, 5100 KB) A plate of chocolate chip cookies. ...
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The bake sales offer to sell cookies at different prices depending on the customer's race and sex, imitating the racial and sexual preference practices of affirmative action. A typical pricing structure would be along the lines of $1.00 for White and Asian males, $.75 for White and Asian females, and $.50 for Latino, Black, and Native American males and $.25 for females. The bake sales are not supportive of this kind of preferential treatment; rather, they argue this preferential pricing is analogous to preferential treatment created by affirmative action policies. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
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These bake sales have been organized at many schools across the U.S., sometimes annually, including University of California Berkeley, University of California Los Angeles, Columbia University, New York University, University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, Northwestern University, DePaul University, the University of Michigan, Indiana University, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, University of Washington, University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and others. Participating students have been from various racial backgrounds. The first affirmative action bake sale occurred on the UCLA campus on February 3, 2003, and was subsequently attacked in a press release by California Democratic Party Chairman Art Torres, leading the UCLA Daily Bruin to cover the story in an article [2]. The story was subsequently picked up by the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Rush Limbaugh, and many other press outlets, and led to the sale being replicated in short succession at the University of Michigan, Berkeley, and others. The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, UC Berkeley, UCB, or simply Berkeley) is a prestigious, public, coeducational university situated in the foothills of Berkeley, California to the east of San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate and its bridge. ...
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Asians not counted as minorities Asians are generally not included in the minority-discount category in bake-sales because they do not benefit from affirmative action policies. For example, some schools have had restrictions on the proportion of Asian students admitted, in favor of lower scoring students of other racial groups.1 African-American Dr. Walter E. Williams, distinguished professor of economics at George Mason University further elaborates that: To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
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- "A minority group is not (counted as) a minority if, as a group, it is successful. Asian median family income is $55,525, the highest of any racial group in America. More than 44 percent of Asians age 25 and over have bachelor's degrees; the rate for all other Americans was 26 percent. Other indicators of group success include low crime rate and high family stability."[3]
(See model minority) April 1984 cover of Newsweek featuring an article on the success of Asian American students Model minority refers to a minority ethnic, racial, or religious group whose members stereotypically achieve a higher degree of success than the population average. ...
Controversy & criticism The bake sales have been controversial, drawing crowds of students, sometimes facing opposition or restriction from campus administrations, often being accused of racism, and sometimes even being attacked.[4] An administrator at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Kristen McManus, titled a letter to the press dealing with a bake sale at the university "Racist Practice at UNCC." In response, in some cases administrators have been accused of censorship, and inappropriately advocating a political position.[5] It has been suggested that Racism in Mass Media be merged into this article or section. ...
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Responding to an affirmative action bake sale being attacked at the University of Washington, the school's Board of Regents President Jerry Grinstein presented the opinion of many opponents of these events when he described "the statements [...] in putting on a bake sale about affirmative action were tasteless, divisive and hurtful to many members of the university community."[6] The student leader of a bake sale at UCLA addressed this issue of divisiveness, saying "we wanted to show how affirmative action is racial division, not racial reconciliation."[7]
At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Graduate and Professional Students of Color student organization responded to a bake sale held by the Students for Individual Liberty[8] by holding a White Privilege popcorn giveaway where white males received a full bag of popcorn, while women and non-whites received 1/3 of a bag. [9] The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, also known as UIUC and the U of I (the officially preferred abbreviation), is the flagship campus in the University of Illinois system. ...
White privilege, or White Skin Privilege, is a term of analysis used to denote a particular kind of alleged social relation, one which typically involves a right, advantage, exemption or immunity granted to or enjoyed by white persons beyond the common advantage of nonwhites. ...
Dr. Walter E. Williams, a libertarian economist, has responded to critics of these bake sales, writing: Walter E. Williams (born 1936) is an American economist. ...
- "Why be offended by a money version of racial preferences? After all, it's identical in principle to admission practices sanctioned by university communities across America. In fact, that's what the University of Michigan case before the U.S. Supreme Court [2003] is all about — treating people differently by race."
Williams argues critics are taking a situational stand instead of a principled stand on racial preferences, writing that such a standpoint effectively holds that "whether racial preferences are wrong or right depends upon whom it's practiced against." This article is about the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. ...
These organized events increased in frequency after a June 2003 ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court that universities could use race as a factor in admissions. These bake sales are supportive of legislation that would bar public universities from collecting or storing racial information, including from applicants for admission.
Similar tactics by leftists The political left has sometimes engaged in similar forms of price discrimination by race or sex to make its own points. For instance, a 1968 feminist tract entitled Notes from the First Year stated its cover price as "$.50 to women, $1.00 to men". In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition...
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April 1984 cover of Newsweek featuring an article on the success of Asian American students Model minority refers to a minority ethnic, racial, or religious group whose members stereotypically achieve a higher degree of success than the population average. ...
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Normal distribution showing results of studies comparing races and ethnic groups with IQ among U.S. test subjects show differences in average test scores, though the distributions overlap, as seen in this graph based on Reynolds et al. ...
Reverse discrimination is a term used to describe discriminatory policies or acts that benefit a historically sociopolitically nondominant group (typically minorities), rather than the historically sociopolitically dominant group. ...
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