Acknowledgments Part I: Thinking about Diversity 1. First Thoughts 2. Taxonomies, Sources, and Legal Structures 3. A New Ideal and Why It Matters Part II: Managing Diversity 4. Immigration: Importing and Assimilating Diversity 5. Affirmative Action: Defining and Certifying Diversity 6. Residential Neighborhoods: Subsidizing and Mandating Diversity 7. Religion: Protecting and Exploiting Diversity 8. Concluding Thoughts: Premises, Principles, Policies, and Punctilios Notes Index
A celebration and a dissection of diversity that is so insightful, so finely balanced, so fair, that it will frustrate the ideologically obsessed and gratify, enhearten and instruct everyone who wants to make America work. -- John T. Noonan, Jr., Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Peter Schuck has written the most comprehensive book to date on diversity, what about it might be good for society or alternatively bad for it, and how we might possibly resolve conflicts over diversity. This will be the most authoritative book available on the diversity issue and how it is played out in various policy areas. It is well-written and perfectly accessible, and very well-researched. Schuck seems to have missed nothing on the diversity debate and on the specific issues he takes up. -- Nathan Glazer, author of We Are All Multiculturalists Now Peter Shuck has done the scholarly community and perhaps the nation a favor in writing this book. He has written a far-reaching analysis of the basic operating value or principle of an increasing number of American institutions-diversity. There is no other book that offers such a thorough analysis. Moreover, and more importantly, Schuck does not rehearse the familiar arguments. His position is iconoclastic, and therefore interesting, courageous, and provocative. -- John Skrentny, author of The Minority Rights Revolution Shuck explores the diversity of diversity with tough-minded wit, combining the lawyer's analytic precision with the social theorist's breadth. -- Aristide Zolberg, co-editor (with Peter Benda) of Global Migrants, Global Refugees: Problems and Solutions
Peter H. Schuck is Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law, Yale University.
Schuck…sees diversity as a tremendous natural resource for American
civic life. But through laws that restrict economic freedom and
institutions that squelch energetic public discourse, he thinks the
government has turned this great asset into a liability. Teachers
and students can’t always say what they want when they want because
of constitutional restraints of religious speech in school,
liability to lawsuits on a range of discrimination issues and the
general timidity that has followed… The connections he makes
between the familiar and the unexpected, and among left, right and
center, make Diversity in America remarkably original.
*New York Times*
A thorough examination of the idea of diversity, including its use
as a justification for affirmative action policies, this book
expresses skepticism concerning the competence of government to
manage diversity… Diversity in America adds breadth to standard
debates abut affirmative action. It does so by considering not only
diversity in higher education, but also the ethnic and cultural
diversity fueled by immigration, the racial and social diversity
often frustrated by patterns of residential housing, and the
religious diversity implicated in the United States’ pursuit of
free exercise of religion… [Schuck] ultimately advances a nuanced
proposal that would permit certain private institutions…to engage
in affirmative action practices, while prohibiting public
institutions and agencies from doing so… Accordingly, the
management of diversity will remain an important public issue and
Diversity in America an important contribution to the United
States’ discourse about that issue.
*Magill’s Literary Annual*
Peter Schuck has written the most comprehensive book to date on
diversity, what about it might be good for society or alternatively
bad for it, and how we might possibly resolve conflicts over
diversity. This will be the most authoritative book available on
the diversity issue and how it is played out in various policy
areas. It is well-written and perfectly accessible, and very
well-researched. Schuck seems to have missed nothing on the
diversity debate and on the specific issues he takes up.
*Nathan Glazer, author of We Are All Multiculturalists
Now*
Some will dismiss Diversity in America as a footnote-laden apologia
for the conservative cause garbed in full Establishment regalia…but
Schuck isn’t Chavez or Connerly, and his arguments need to be
engaged. It’s essential to begin thinking beyond the model of a
generation ago, which assumes that the force of law rather than an
appeal to what Schuck calls ‘genuineness’ is the best way to manage
diversity… Still, as Diversity in America acknowledges, it’s hardly
‘Kumbaya’ by the campfire. Our embrace of differentness is a wary,
contextual, and complex matter… Schuck’s analyses are provocative
and complex.
*David L. Kirp*
A celebration and a dissection of diversity that is so insightful,
so finely balanced, so fair, that it will frustrate the
ideologically obsessed and gratify, enhearten and instruct everyone
who wants to make America work.
*John T. Noonan, Jr., Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the
Ninth Circuit*
Peter Schuck has done the scholarly community and perhaps the
nation a favor in writing this book. He has written a far-reaching
analysis of the basic operating value or principle of an increasing
number of American institutions—diversity. There is no other book
that offers such a thorough analysis. Moreover, and more
importantly, Schuck does not rehearse the familiar arguments. His
position is iconoclastic, and therefore interesting, courageous,
and provocative.
*John Skrentny, author of The Minority Rights
Revolution*
Schuck explores the diversity of diversity with tough-minded wit,
combining the lawyer’s analytic precision with the social
theorist’s breadth.
*Aristide Zolberg, coeditor (with Peter Benda) of Global
Migrants, Global Refugees: Problems and Solutions*
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