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Informationen zum Autor Peter H. Schuck is Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law, Yale University. Klappentext diversity ideal. He concludes with recommendations to help us manage the challenge of diversity in the future. 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 20030421 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. -- Peter Temes New York Times 20030413 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...[H]e 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. -- Timothy L. Hall Magill's Literary Annual 20040601 Zusammenfassung Schuck explains how Americans have understood diversity, how they have come to embrace it, how the government regulates it now, and how we can do better. He argues that diversity is best managed not by the government but by families, ethnic groups, religious communities, employers, voluntary organizations, and other civil society institutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
