Analysis Of Ronald Takaki's A Different Mirror
To follow up from last week's analysis, chapter fifteen of Ronald Takaki's A Different Mirror deep drives into the era of post-World War II. Astonishingly, it was only a little over twenty years ago when the University of California Board of Regents member Ward Connerly formally banned affirmative action in the university admission process. For the fear that this practice promoted a form of 'reverse discrimination' because seats would be pulled away from whites and Asians in order to favor African and Latino Americans. With this in mind, Connerly shared a similar ideology with President Ronald Reagan that African Americans could match the growing success of Asian Americans should they study and work hard enough. After his success with