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Viet Dinh argues against the notion that groups defined in terms of race and sex have special perspectives. Speaking of school admissions, he writes as follows:

Race is proposed as merit based on the value of the perspective that each racial minority brings to the admitting institution. But perspective may not correspond with race. The constituent members of what is bureaucratically deemed to be a 'race' may be so radically different from each other that their common categorization is artificial. For example, although I am considered Asian, as a Vietnamese immigrant I may have more in common with a Haitian refugee than with a third-generation Japanese American. Likewise, a recent Somalian immigrant may identify more with his Cambodian neighbors than with Jesse Jackson's prep-school children. To group us into separate races labeled 'Asian' and 'African' mocks the whole notion of experiential perspective. Even more troubling, such indeterminacy will tend to follow a certain pattern: those minorities who win the intrarace merit contest will tend to be the prep-school-educated elites, who profit from the suffering of less fortunate members of their race.

Reference: From Viet D. Dinh, "Multiracial Affirmative Action" in Debating Affirmative Action edited by Nicolaus Mills, p. 283.