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Diagnosed at the age of seven, Sotomayor needed (and needs still) daily insulin shots. Because her mother worked long hours and her father's alcoholic neuropathy made his hands shake too violently to manage an injection, Sonia recognized that she would have to learn to administer the shots hers...

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Published in:Commentary 2013, Vol.135 (5), p.43
Main Author: Charen, Mona
Format: Review
Language:English
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Age
Alger, Horatio (1832-1899)
Autoimmune diseases
Black students
Obama, Barack
Sotomayor, Sonia
Writers
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Summary:Diagnosed at the age of seven, Sotomayor needed (and needs still) daily insulin shots. Because her mother worked long hours and her father's alcoholic neuropathy made his hands shake too violently to manage an injection, Sonia recognized that she would have to learn to administer the shots herself. In their carefully researched book Mismatch, Stuart Taylor and Richard Sander provide many examples of the unintended consequences of affirmative action, including (1) the disproportionate number of black students who abandon efforts to pursue doctorates because they are enrolled at colleges where they cannot compete with better qualified peers; (2) the fact that black law students are four times more likely to flunk the bar exam than other students; (3) that mismatch causes black students to abandon fields like science and engineering at twice the rate of whites; and (4) that minority students at mismatched schools are less likely than those at other schools to form interracial friendships.
ISSN:0010-2601
1943-4634