Uniting America--Racial Equality: Public Policies for the Twenty-first Century
April 19, 2001
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Race is easily the defining point of American disunity. The issue's sensitivity and divisiveness are continuously called to our attention by our media and culture -- issues such as bilingual education, census categories, affirmative action, and racial and ethnic profiling are frequently in the headlines but rarely openly discussed. In its scope and volatility, race poses a challenge to America, a challenge to become one country in which all Americans are part of the whole. This 2001 Uniting America Assembly centered on the belief that opportunities for all groups and the common good are interrelated. The convening group sought progress for all racial groups in criminal justice, immigration, and economic opportunity.


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James Steinberg is currently Deputy Secretary of State. He was previously the Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and cosponsor of The American Assembly's Next Generation Project. He will assume the position of Dean and Professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in the summer of 2011.