Earl Lewis and Nancy Cantor, "Our Compelling Interests: The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society" (Princeton UP, 2016)
Princeton University Press\u2019\xa0Our Compelling Interests series\xa0focuses on diversity, in racial, gender, socioeconomic, religious, and other forms.\xa0Some of the titles in this series so far include\xa0The Walls around Opportunity:\xa0The Failure of Colorblind Policy for Higher Education\xa0by Gary Orfield,\xa0Out of Many Faiths:\xa0Religious Diversity and the American Promise\xa0By Eboo Patel, and\xa0The Diversity Bonus:\xa0How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy,\xa0by Scott E. Page.\nEarl Lewis is the Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of history, Afroamerican and\xa0African Studies, and Public Policy and director of the Center for Social Solutions at the\xa0University of Michigan. From March 2013-2018, he served as President of The Andrew W.\xa0Mellon Foundation.\nNancy Cantor is Chancellor of Rutgers University \u2013 Newark.\xa0A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and member of the National Academy\xa0of Medicine, she previously led Syracuse University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was provost at the University of Michigan, where she was closely involved in\xa0the defense of affirmative action in 2003 Supreme Court cases Grutter and Gratz.\nCaleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law