Wrestling with Diversity

Sanford Levinson

Wrestling with Diversity
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Duke University Press
Country
United States
Published
27 October 2003
Pages
352
ISBN
9780822332398

Wrestling with Diversity

Sanford Levinson

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Although most discussions of diversity have focused on race and ethnicity, Levinson is particularly interested in religious diversity and its implications. Why, he asks, do arguments for racial and ethnic diversity not also counsel a concern to achieve religious diversity within a student body? He considers the propriety of judges drawing on their religious views in making legal decisions and the kinds of questions Senators should feel free to ask nominees to the federal judiciary who have proclaimed the importance of their religion in structuring their own lives. In exploring the sense in which Sandy Koufax can be said to be a Jewish baseball player, he engages in broad reflections on professional identity. He asks whether it is desirable, or even possible, to subordinate merely personal aspects of one’s identity - religion, political viewpoints, gender - to the impersonal demands of the professional role. Wrestling with Diversity is a powerful interrogation of the assumptions and contradictions underlying public life in a multicultural world.

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