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By Asad L. Asad, Apr. 10, 2014, Psmag.com
When Kwasi Enin—the Ghanaian-American student accepted by
all eight Ivy League schools—first made headlines, he probably never expected
to ignite a national conversation about race and ethnic relations. Why would
he, given his rank among the top of his class and his stellar 2250 SAT score?
By all accounts, he represents the typical Ivy League-bound high school senior.
But Enin is “not a typical African-American kid,” as some have
characterized him. This description has been
rightly criticized as an ill-phrased reference to the student’s
immigrant origins that draws on perceived frictions between African immigrants
and black Americans, especially in discussions of higher education. Driving
these perceived tensions is the notion that immigrants are benefitting from
racial justice policies—like affirmative action—that were originally intended
to make up for historical wrongs committed against black Americans.
This emphasis on the black American-African divide misses a
larger question about immigration’s role in the implementation of racial justice
policies, and how these policies have been redefined to foster racial diversity.
As greater numbers of non-white immigrants have entered the country,
longstanding racial minority populations have become increasingly multi-ethnic.
Our racial diversity policies should be reconstructed to reflect these
demographic realities.
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