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Wrestling with Diversity (Paperback, New)
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Wrestling with Diversity (Paperback, New)
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"Diversity" has become a mantra within discussions of university
admissions policies and many other arenas of American society. In
the essays collected here, Sanford Levinson, a leading scholar of
constitutional law and American government, wrestles with various
notions of diversity. He begins by explaining why he finds the
concept to be almost useless as a genuine guide to public policy.
Discussing affirmative action in university admissions, including
the now famous University of Michigan Law School case, he argues
both that there may be good reasons to use preferences-including
race and ethnicity-and that these reasons have relatively little to
do with any cogently developed theory of diversity. Distinguished
by Levinson's characteristic open-mindedness and willingness to
tease out the full implications of various claims, each of these
nine essays, written over the past decade, develops a case study
focusing on a particular aspect of public life in a richly diverse,
and sometimes bitterly divided, society.Although most discussions
of diversity have focused on race and ethnicity, Levinson is
particularly interested in religious diversity and its
implications. Why, he asks, do arguments for racial and ethnic
diversity not also counsel a concern to achieve religious diversity
within a student body? He considers the propriety of judges drawing
on their religious views in making legal decisions and the kinds of
questions Senators should feel free to ask nominees to the federal
judiciary who have proclaimed the importance of their religion in
structuring their own lives. In exploring the sense in which Sandy
Koufax can be said to be a "Jewish baseball player," he engages in
broad reflections on professional identity. He asks whether it is
desirable, or even possible, to subordinate merely "personal"
aspects of one's identity-religion, political viewpoints, gender-to
the impersonal demands of the professional role. Wrestling with
Diversity is a powerful interrogation of the assumptions and
contradictions underlying public life in a multicultural world.
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