EQUALITY RE-IMAGINED Keynote Address with Lani Guinier: "The Tyranny of the Meritocracy"

source: Yale University     2016年5月12日
Lani Guinier gave the keynote address at a day-long event hosted by the Center for the Study of Inequality at the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS). Guinier is the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and her talk was based on her book, "The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America."
This day-long conference titled “Equality Re-Imagined” was held in February of 2015. It was intended to mark the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act by looking at the civil rights issues of our time and the prospects for reform. The event was organized by Vesla Weaver, Assistant Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Yale, and Director of the ISPS Center for the Study of Inequality.