The American Race Regime | David Bernstein & Richard Hanania
The American Race Regime | David Bernstein & Richard Hanania
The history and irrationality of racial classification in the United States
Appears in this episode
David Bernstein is a Law Professor and Executive Director of the Liberty and Law Center at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. He joins the podcast to talk about his new book Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America.
David and Richard discuss the history of racial conflict and classification in America, the political construction of ethnic identities like AAPI and Hispanic, how wealthy immigrants hijacked government set-asides, why medical researchers care so little about actual physiological and anthropological distinctions between ethnic groups, and the political feasibility of colorblindness in a world of racial disparities.
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Links:
David Bernstein, Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America.
David Bernstein, You Can't Say That!: The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws.
G. Christina Mora, Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American.
Thomas Sowell, Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study.
The American Race Regime | David Bernstein & Richard Hanania
I have no patience for a podcase on a topic I may want to comment on. My problems not yours :)
"Hijacked." No. that implies intention. The problem is that in a desire to offset some of the disadvantages that descendants of slaves and to a lesser extent people who look like descendants of slaves face various institutions set up crude programs of favoritism that have the result of making it easier for a first generation Nigerian to get into Harvard than a first generation Swede or Indian. :) Since I don't think anyone really disagrees about waiting to offset some of those disadvantages, the question what less crude programs could be used. To do that, you probably need to interview an economist more than a lawyer.