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The event, free to the public, is taking place at 5:30 PM on Friday, February 12.

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More than forty years have passed since Congress enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, writes Stages of Freedom. In 2008, we elected the first African American president.

Some would say we have arrived at a postracial America, but The Imperative of Integration indicates otherwise, they continue. Join author Elizabeth Anderson, Americans foremost philosopher, as we discuss why racial integration is needed more than ever to overcome justice and inequality, to build a better democracy.

About Anderson

Anderson, who received her Masters and Doctorate in Philosophy from Harvard University, currently specializes in ethics, social and political philosophy, feminist theory, social epistemology, and the philosophy of economics and the social sciences at the University of Michigan, where she is the John Dewey Distinguished University Professor; John Rawls Collegiate Professor; and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor.

Andersons book The Imperative of Integration is described as the following by Princeton University Press with the following.

"Anderson demonstrates that, despite progress toward racial equality, African Americans remain disadvantaged on virtually all measures of well-being. Segregation remains a key cause of these problems, and Anderson skillfully shows why racial integration is needed to address these issues. Weaving together extensive social science findings in economics, sociology, and psychology with political theory, this book provides a compelling argument for reviving the ideal of racial integration to overcome injustice and inequality, and to build a better democracy.

Considering the effects of segregation and integration across multiple social arenas, Anderson exposes the deficiencies of racial views on both the right and the left. She reveals the limitations of conservative explanations for black disadvantage in terms of cultural pathology within the black community and explains why color blindness is morally misguided. Multicultural celebrations of group differences are also not enough to solve our racial problems. Anderson provides a distinctive rationale for affirmative action as a tool for promoting integration, and explores how integration can be practiced beyond affirmative action.

Offering an expansive model for practicing political philosophy in close collaboration with the social sciences, this book is a trenchant examination of how racial integration can lead to a more robust and responsive democracy."

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