Elite-university affirmative action beneficiaries gained earnings with no harm to white students

Evidence

Attending a high-quality school yields higher earnings in adulthood, even after controlling for family background and school achievement; studies even show higher payoffs to blacks than to whites of attending an elite school (Brewer et al., 1999; Kane, 1998; Daniel et al., 1995; Bowen and Bok, 1998). Thus affirmative action beneficiaries at elite universities did indeed benefit, to no apparent detriment to their fellow white students. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1977