- Title: Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Racial Integration as a Compelling Interest'
- Host Department:
Institute for the Humanities
- Date: 09/19/2004 - 09/19/2004
- Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
- Location: Osterman Common Room, Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
- Contact Information: Nicola Kiver
734 936 3518
- Description: Elizabeth Anderson, Philosophy
Diversity Series
- Detailed Information: It is not widely understood that “Grutter v. Bollinger,” the landmark Supreme Court case upholding the constitutionality of affirmative action in education, recognized racial integration, not just “diversity,” as a compelling interest. Professor Anderson will discuss the importance of racial integration for overcoming the continuing effects of centuries of racial oppression, and for realizing democracy more fully in the U.S.
Elizabeth Anderson conducts research in two broad areas. One concerns theories of value and rationality and their relationship to political institutions, particularly markets and democratic organizations. She is currently investigating the relations between moral and political values, especially those involving gender and race, and social practices of inquiry and justification. She has also written on social choice theory and the history of ethics and political philosophy.
