More than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
About the Author: Elizabeth Anderson is the John Rawls Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Women\'s Stu.
Offering an expansive model for practicing political philosophy in close collaboration with the social sciences, this book is a trenchant examination of how racial Integration can lead to a more robust and responsive democracy.
Anderson provides a distinctive rationale for affirmative action as a tool for promoting integration, and explores how Integration can be practiced beyond affirmative action.
Multicultural celebrations of group differences are also not enough to solve our racial problems.
She reveals the limitations of conservative explanations for black disadvantage in terms of cultural pathology within the black community and explains why color blindness is morally misguided.
Considering the effects of segregation and Integration across multiple social arenas, Anderson exposes the deficiencies of racial views on both the right and the left.
Weaving together extensive social science findings--in economics, sociology, and psychology--with political theory, this book provides a compelling argument for reviving the ideal of racial Integration to overcome injustice and inequality, and to build a better democracy.
Segregation remains a key cause of these problems, and Anderson skillfully shows why racial Integration is needed to address these issues.
Elizabeth Anderson demonstrates that, despite progress toward racial equality, African Americans remain disadvantaged on virtually all measures of well-being.
Some would argue that we have finally arrived at a postracial America, but The Imperative of Integration indicates otherwise.
As a signal achievement of that legacy, in 2008, Americans elected their first African American president.
More than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968
