Pan-ethnic student organizing achieved a formal racial recategorization in 2013
Evidence
In keeping with the testimony of the youth in this book, the language and claims of the UC SWANA resolution were a direct response to contradictory and politically frustrating experiences as “legal whites” and everyday racial others. On May 2, 2013, UC president Mark Yudof confirmed that “SWANA” would be, from that point forward, adopted in the race/ethnicity portion of the systemwide UC application. SWANA youth, mostly second-generation immigrants, had successfully banded together with the help of their peer al ies at UC to pul off a large-scale feat of pan-ethnic racial recategorization that their generational prede-cessors were not able or interested to accomplish. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 344
Categorization
- SEED: An article angle: how youth-led pan-ethnic organizing can override institutional racial classification — a case study of bottom-up administrative change.
- XREF: connects to: Student advocacy achieved collective recategorization of Iranians from legal whites to non-white SWANA — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 773