Diversity in America

Keeping Government at a Safe Distance

Peter H. Schuck

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$34.50 • £27.95 • €31.00

ISBN 9780674018549

Publication Date: 02/25/2006

Short

462 pages

5-11/16 x 8-7/8 inches

Belknap Press

World

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Acknowledgments
I. Thinking about Diversity
- 1. First Thoughts
- 2. Taxonomies, Sources, and Legal Structures
- 3. A New Ideal and Why It Matters
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

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