Jeff Chang & Jeannie Park on Asian Americans and Affirmative Action

  NBC (11/2/22) This week on CounterSpin: Corporate media have never been the right place to look for thoughtful, inclusive consideration of affirmative action. For them it’s an “issue,” a political football, rather than a long effort to address the real historical and ongoing discrimination against non-white, non-male people in multiple aspects of US life. But when it comes to the role that anti-discrimination, pro-equity efforts have had on Asian-American communities, there are particular layers of mis- and disinformation that benefit from exploring. Listeners will know that Asian-American students are being used as the face of attempts to eliminate affirmative action or race-consciousness in college admissions. It looks like the Supreme Court will rule on a watershed case this month. We talk about it with writer and cultural critic Jeff Chang, author of We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation, among other titles. Transcript: ‘The History of Affirmative Action Has Asian-American Influence All Over It’ https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin230602Chang.mp3   We also hear some of an earlier discussion of the case Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. vs. Harvard that CounterSpin had with Jeannie Park, founding president of the Asian American Journalists Association in New York, and co-founder of the Coalition for a Diverse Harvard. Transcript: ‘This Case Was Never About Defending Asian Americans’ https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin230602Park.mp3 Transcript: “This Case Was Never About Defending Asian Americans”