Chinese for Affirmative Action

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Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) is a San Francisco-based advocacy organization. Founded in 1969, its initial goals were equality of access to employment and the creation of job opportunities for Chinese Americans. The group broadened its mission in the subsequent decades. As of 2007, its stated mission is "to defend and promote the civil and political rights of Chinese and Asian Americans within the context of, and in the interest of, advancing multiracial democracy in the United States"

[edit] Support for controversial Asian admission quotas

In the 1990s, CFAA sided with the San Francisco Unified District against parents who believed that it was unfair to apply higher examination admission standards to Chinese students applying to Lowell High School just to enforce a 50 percent quota on any ethnic group which was part of a consent decree. That is, they supported affirmative action even when it acted to the detriment of other Chinese Americans.