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Diversity, Democracy & Pluralism: Confronting The Reality Of Our Inequality, Stacy Hawkins

Mercer Law Review

African-Americans were inspired by the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American President of the United States. Women were energized by even the prospect of electing the first female President of the United States. Latinos expressed pride in the confirmation of Justice Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court. And a movie was made immortalizing Harvey Milk, the first openly gay politician elected to public office in the United States. This list of celebrated "firsts" goes on and on. All too often in the twenty-first century, we have either celebrated diversity among our civic leaders as a novelty, …