Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"For a collection of essays, the book is well organized and unusually coherent. Each of the essays makes important contributions to what is likely among the most important challenges the US will face in the twenty-first century. Though balanced, the overall tone is optimistic."--Choice
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix List of Contributors xiii Introduction: The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society 1 Earl Lewis and Nancy Cantor The "Diversity Explosion" Is America's Twenty- first- Century Baby Boom 16 William H. Frey PART ONE: ESSAYS Chapter 1. Less Separate, Still Unequal: Diversity and Equality in "Post- Civil Rights" America 39 Thomas J. Sugrue Chapter 2. Toward a Connected Society 71 Danielle Allen Chapter 3. The Economic Value of Diversity 106 Anthony Carnevale and Nicole Smith PART TWO : COMMENTARIES Chapter 4. The Diversity of Diversity 161 Kwame Anthony Appiah Chapter 5. Group Interactions in Building a Connected Society 170 Patricia Gurin Chapter 6. Diversity and Institutional Life: Levels and Objects 182 Ira Katznelson Chapter 7. Diversity as a Strategic Advantage: A Sociodemographic Perspective 192 Marta Tienda Notes 207 Index 245
