Admissions Granted: Further Readings

The Case: From District Court to the Supreme Court

• Does Harvard Admissions Discriminate? The Lawsuit on Affirmative Action, Explained - The New York Times The New York Times. October 15, 2018. By Anemona Hartocollis
• The Rise and Fall of Affirmative Action The New Yorker. October 8, 2018. By Hua Hsu.
• How to Get Into Harvard: Lessons from the Harvard Trial Medium. June 6, 2019.
• Where Does Affirmative Action Leave Asian-Americans? The New York Times. August 28, 2019. By Jay Caspian Kang
• Supreme Court Oral Arguments: SFFA v. UNC and SFFA v. Harvard
• The Supreme Court Overturns Fifty Years of Precedent on Affirmative Action The New Yorker. June 29, 2023. By Jeannie Suk Gersen
• Reporting on the case by The Harvard Crimson, Harvard’s student newspaper.
• Supreme Court Opinions: 20-1199 Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (06/29/2023)

Edward Blum

• He Took On the Voting Rights Act and Won. Now Heʼs Taking On Harvard. The New York Times. November 19, 2017. By Anemona Hartocollis. The Architect | More Perfect | WNYC Studios Podcast / WNYC.

Affirmative Action

• Can Affirmative Action Survive? The New Yorker. July 26, 2021. By Nicholas Lemann
• The Changing Meaning of Affirmative Action | The New Yorker The New Yorker. January 13, 2020. By Louis Menand
• Debate: Affirmative Action On Campus Does More Harm Than Good - Open to Debate
• Debate: Is Affirmative Action Unfair to Asian Americans? - Open to Debate
• From the Legal Perspective: Series: Affirmative Action at a Crossroads The University of Chicago Law Review
• From the Philosophical Perspective - Two Lectures with Harvard Philosophy Professor Michael Sandel: Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 08: "WHATS A FAIR START?"
• Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 09: "ARGUING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION"

Elite College Admissions

• Intellectuals at the Gate Inside Higher Ed. September 21, 2022
• Yes, Harvard Discriminated Against Jews. No, That’s Not What It’s Doing to Asian Americans. Slate. November 1, 2022
• Study of Elite College Admissions Data Suggests Being Very Rich Is Its Own Qualification The New York Times. July 24, 2023.

Books

• Is Affirmative Action Fair?: The Myth of Equity in College Admissions By Natasha Warikoo
• For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law By Randall Kennedy
• The Affirmative Action Puzzle: A Living History from Reconstruction to Today By Melvin I. Urofsky
• The Chosen By Jerome Karabel