“Asians were standing in as proxies for white students,” says Jeff Chang, a writer and activist who has long fought for affirmative action. “That’s essentially the strategy that Ed Blum used.”

That strategy, before a far right Supreme Court, would finally be a winning one for Blum. But to reach this goal, scholars like Chang say he and his colleagues pitted Asian Americans against Black and Latino communities, using both real issues and false narratives, to end policies that had helped diversify college campuses.

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