Week 2 Makeup Ribhu Singh

This weeks readings on the merits of proposition 209, and the overstated benefits that race blind admissions have posed for the Asian community when taken into the broader context of multi-racial interaction. The statistic that proposition 209 has only led to a 7% rise in the Asian american acceptance rate has caused me to reevaluate my own views on affirmative action. Upon learning about the merits that cross cultural interaction has upon people of color, I feel that the Asian community has a new onus placed upon it: The onus of fostering communication between URM's and other ethnic groups. I too was misled by the misguided sense of self interest that is characteristic of the in-group bias that is characteristic of being part of the Asian American community. I feel as though second generation immigrants are not cognizant of how they explicitly benefited from the civil rights movement and how the cultural attitudes towards multi-culturalism that we today take for granted, were paved by the actions of African American and Latino activists. We could not have has the Hart Celler act without the legislation of the Civil Rights act. I wonder is there is an organized historiography for the history of cross-cultural activism?, and especially in the aftermath of Richard Aoki.