ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the latest attempt of White exclusion in education. Utilizing legal scholar Carol Swain's new White nationalist thesis, the chapter contextualizes the legal arguments against the University of Texas at Austin's diversity policy in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. It presents an overview of Ms. Fisher's argument against the University of Texas' diversity policy as articulated in her initial petition to the US Supreme Court. The chapter focuses on Swain's (2002) new White nationalist thesis. It analyzes Ms. Fisher's anti-diversity arguments through the new White nationalist lens. According to Fisher, individual students were now being asked to bear a burden in the name of diversity. According to historian Anderson (2004), the majority, if not all, of the alleged victims of reverse discrimination cases in higher education portrayed in the media have been White people. The chapter offers concluding thoughts on Fisher and White nationalism.
