Diversity

Online
Essay
Reframing Affirmative Action: From Diversity to Mobility and Full Participation
Susan P. Sturm
Susan P. Sturm is the George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility, the Director of the Center for Institutional and Social Change at Columbia Law School, and Director of Policy for the Broadway Advocacy Coalition.

At the same time that a national racial reckoning has galvanized students to press higher education institutions (HEIs) to face up to their legacies of racism and commit to antiracism, courts are considering arguments for prohibiting consideration of race in admissions decisions.

Diversity Inequality University Admissions
Online
Essay
Before Bakke: The Hidden History of the Diversity Rationale
Anthony S. Chen
Anthony S. Chen is Associate Professor of Sociology and Political Science at Northwestern University, where he is also a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research. The author of The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941–1972 (Princeton, 2009), he is interested in political sociology, historical sociology, and American political development, with a special emphasis on civil rights, social and economic policy, and business-government relations.
Lisa M. Stulberg
Lisa M. Stulberg is Associate Professor of Sociology of Education at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. The author of Race, Schools, and Hope: African Americans and School Choice after Brown (Teachers College Press, 2008) and the co-editor (with Sharon Lawner Weinberg) of Diversity in American Higher Education: Toward a More Comprehensive Approach (Routledge, 2011), she researches the politics of race and education, and LGBTQ+ social change.

Chen and Stulberg are completing a book on the history and development of race-conscious affirmative action in college admissions.

For all of the legal and political contention surrounding affirmative action, one facet of the discussion is characterized by a curious, if implicit, consensus that spans all manner of ideological and partisan divisions.

Diversity Legal History
Online
Essay
Pursuing Diversity: From Education to Employment
Amy L. Wax
Amy L. Wax is the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

A core ideal of Anglo-American law is that legal wrongs should be remedied by restoring the injured victim to the “rightful position.”

Diversity

Volumes