Ethnic Pluralism and Public Policy.

Abstract

Last May the Academy, in conjunction with two British organizations, the Commission for Racial Equality and the Policy Studies Institute, sponsored a conference in England comparing and evaluating United States and British efforts to eliminate discrimination and increase opportunitiesfor racial minorities. This study wasfunded by the Commission for Racial Equality, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Thefollowing are excerpts by the two co-editors of the collaborative volume resulting from this project, Ethnic Pluralism and Public Policy: Achieving Equality in the United States and Britain. Nathan Glazer, author of the introduction, is Professor of Education and Social Structure at Harvard University, and Ken Young, author of the chapter on British ethnic pluralism and policy, is a Senior Fellow at the Policy Studies Institute.