On October 16 and 17, 2017, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, we brought together scholars from around the world to collectively investigate the concept, history, and administration of the global discourse and practice of “diversity.” In particular, we were interested in how the US Supreme Court decisions in Regents of University of California v. Bakke and Grutter v. Bollinger had ultimately led public universities in the United States to shift away from the original intent of affirmative action, which worked to redress historical inequality, and toward the concept of “diversity.”1 We were struck by the ways that universityled diversity initiatives have shaped our everyday lives and by the extent to which we have been called to manage them. It is not, we argued, that diversity is new — it was already there, as a form of “integration,” at least since the 1970s (see Dresch 1995) — but that affirmative action and other legal forms of broader social redress are in many places either no longer in effect or in rapid decline. We were interested in scrutinizing how, as a consequence of this shift, inclusion has come to be theorized through diversity as an approach that systematically denies access to minoritized populations (including indigenous people, in nationstates and in the world more generally), regardless of actual demographic status. While the number of minoritized populations in the United States is moving toward the status of becoming a demographic majority, the logic of diversity assumes that they will remain in the minority at key sites

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追问“多样性”的历史与未来

2017 年 10 月 16 日至 17 日，在密歇根大学安娜堡分校，我们汇集了来自世界各地的学者，共同探讨“多样性”的全球话语和实践的概念、历史和管理。尤其是，我们对美国最高法院在 Regents of California v. Bakke 和 Grutter v. Bollinger 案中的裁决如何最终导致美国公立大学偏离平权行动的初衷感兴趣，这有助于纠正历史上的不平等，并朝着“多样性”的概念发展。1 我们对大学主导的多样性倡议塑造我们日常生活的方式以及我们被要求管理它们的程度感到震惊。我们认为，多样性并不是新事物——它已经存在，作为一种“整合、”至少自 1970 年代以来（见 Dresch 1995）——但平权行动和其他更广泛的社会补救的法律形式在许多地方要么不再有效，要么正在迅速下降。我们有兴趣仔细研究，作为这种转变的结果，包容如何通过多样性被理论化，作为一种系统地拒绝少数群体（包括土著人民，在民族国家和世界上更普遍的人）接触的方法，无论实际情况如何人口状况。虽然美国少数族裔人口的数量正朝着成为人口多数的状态发展，但多样性的逻辑假设他们将在关键地点保持少数 我们有兴趣仔细研究，作为这种转变的结果，包容如何通过多样性被理论化，作为一种系统地拒绝少数群体（包括土著人民，在民族国家和世界上更普遍的人）接触的方法，无论实际情况如何人口状况。虽然美国少数族裔人口的数量正朝着成为人口多数的状态发展，但多样性的逻辑假设他们将在关键地点保持少数 我们有兴趣仔细研究，作为这种转变的结果，包容如何通过多样性被理论化，作为一种系统地拒绝少数群体（包括土著人民，在民族国家和世界上更普遍的人）接触的方法，无论实际情况如何人口状况。虽然美国少数族裔人口的数量正朝着成为人口多数的状态发展，但多样性的逻辑假设他们将在关键地点保持少数