Shep Melnick – The Crucible of Desegregation

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Glenn Loury

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🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

0:00 Biden’s new DEI initiatives

7:59 The disparate uses of disparate impact

13:59 Shep’s new book, The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality

23:15 The problem with claims that education is resegregating

29:56 Are we heading back to the bussing debates of the 1970s?

35:52 Shep’s book, The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education

44:20 Glenn’s “uncle” objects to analogies between trans people and African Americans

47:58 Shep: Banning Critical Race Theory is the wrong strategy

Recorded September 8, 2023

Links and Readings

Shep’s new book, The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality

Heather Mac Donald’s book, When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives

Gary Orfield’s book, The Reconstruction of Southern Education: The Schools and the 1964 Civil Rights Act

James Fishkin’s book, Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Family

Shep’s book, The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education

John Skretny’s book, The Minority Rights Revolution

Robin DiAngelo’s book, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism

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0:57.8	Every other week with a distinguished guest, this week our distinguished guest is Professor
1:02.8	Chef Melnik.
1:04.9	He is the Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Professor of Politics at Boston College and Co-director
1:11.4	of Harvard's Program on Constitutional Government and an author of several important books
1:19.5	about the administrative, the politics of the administrative state, the transformation
1:24.8	of Title IX that was five years ago or so.
1:28.8	And most recently published earlier this year, the crucible of desegregation.
1:35.4	And so I was looking forward to talking with Chef about the politics of the civil rights
1:39.7	state in our time amongst other things.
1:42.9	I mean, there is an election coming.
1:45.6	The president is in the dock in a number of jurisdictions.
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