Against the Grain

Standard Identities, Complex Realities

Diversity is measured in large part by the presence or absence of people belonging to one ethnoracial category (Black, Hispanic, etc.) or another. But do those long-standing categories still make sense, given intragroup differences, immigration to the U.S., and race-mixing? David Hollinger thinks that if the goal of anti-discrimination policy is to match reward conferred to wrong suffered, identity classifications need to be rethought and reworked. (Encore presentation.)

Robbins and Horta, eds., Cosmopolitanisms NYU Press, 2017

David Hollinger, Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America Princeton University Press, 2017

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