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Article: Affirmative action and after: now is the time to reconsider a policy that must eventually change. But simply replacing race with class isn't the solution.(Essay)
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- American Scholar
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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A recent column in the alumni newsletter of my alma mater, the University of Mississippi, is headlined "We Have Legacies." The quote is lifted from the column and would ordinarily evoke the world of Southern landed gentry. A photograph on the page, however, shows the author to be an African-American woman, thereby turning another Old South stereotype on its head at a school that already has cast off many symbols of its all-white history. The battle flag of the Confederacy is no longer displayed at Ole Miss football games, for instance, and "Dixie" is no longer sung loudly in the stands.
The author is my former classmate and a member of the Ole Miss student hall ...