The Next Vanguard in Civil Rights: Abandoning the Myth of
Meritocracy
Lani Guinier,
Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
Wednesday, April 2, 7 p.m.
Jepson Alumni Center
The first black woman to be appointed to
a tenured professorship at Harvard Law is the author of
numerous articles on democratic theory, political
representation, educational equity and issues of race
and gender. A leading voice for political reform, she
advocates rethinking race and class and changing the way
we look at affirmative action. She is the author of
Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a
New Vision of Social Justice, The Tyranny of the
Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative
Democracy, co-author of Who’s Qualified?
and co-author of The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race,
Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy. Book
signing.
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