Prof. Goodwin's Essay on Affirmative Action Cited in MPR News Article

Professor Michele Goodwin's Wisconsin Law Review essay, "The Death of Affirmative Action?" was cited in a Minnesota Public Radio news article entitled "Do White Women Recognize the Entitlements they Gained from Affirmative Action?" Goodwin's essay notes that that since Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, plaintiffs suing for discrimination in academic admissions have been white women, despite the fact that white women have significantly benefited from state and federal affirmative action programs. Her article also discusses that although race is the primary focus in these landmark cases, white men were admitted with lower test scores than the female plaintiffs who chose to sue for race-based, rather than gender-based, discrimination.