The Diversity Ideal: History and Values (Chapter 3)

61 Pages Posted: 30 Mar 2002

Abstract

This chapter is divided into two main sections. The first is a brief intellectual history of diversity-as-ideal, beginning with the Biblical texts and continuing up to the present. I emphasize the novelty of diversity-as-ideal, its cultural antecedents in America, and its efflorescence in the late 1960s when the civil rights movement and a new immigration system provided ideological and demographic energy to this nascent ideal. The second section identifies the values and dis-values of diversity by considering how a liberal, a communitarian, a utilitarian, and a social functionalist would understand and assess diversity.

Suggested Citation

Schuck, Peter H., The Diversity Ideal: History and Values (Chapter 3). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=305800 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.305800

Peter H. Schuck (Contact Author)

Yale University - Law School ( email )

P.O. Box 208215
New Haven, CT 06520-8215
United States

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