51 recently hosted “The Inner City Citizen — the Limits of Liberal Democracy,” a panel discussion and lecture featuring Glenn Loury, the distinguished economist and author who is now the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences at Brown.
During his Conversation on World Affairs with President Jeffrey Herbst, Loury looked ahead to an America that is less black-white, and “more interesting and complicated racially” due to non-European immigration flows, intermarriage, and other effects of the increasingly globalized world.
Loury said: “I wouldn’t say ‘race over’…but it may well be the beginning of the end of race as we have known it.”
The full 13-minute interview is on .
The symposium was sponsored by 51’s Arnold A. Sio Chair for Diversity and Community — which is presently held by Philip Richards, professor of English — along with the Dean of the Faculty office and the Institute for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.