> The New York Times, June 24, 2004
>
> Top Colleges Take More Blacks, but Which Ones?
>
> By Sara Rime and Karen W. Anderson
>
> Cambridge, Mass.
>
> At the most recent reunion of Harvard University's black alumni, there was
> lots of pleased talk about the increase in the number of black students at
> Harvard.
>
> But the celebratory mood was broken in one forum, when some speakers
> brought up the thorny issue of exactly who those black students were.
>
> While about 8 percent, or about 530, of Harvard's undergraduates were
> black, Lani Guinier, a Harvard law professor, and Henry Louis Gates Jr.,
> the chairman of Harvard's African and African-American studies department,
> pointed out that the majority of them -- perhaps as many as two-thirds --
> were West Indian and African immigrants or their children, or to a lesser
> extent, children of biracial couples.........................
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