ANN ARBOR—”Race in Black and White: Different Perspectives from Recent Research,” a panel discussion featuring authors Abigail Thernstrom, Tamar Jacoby and James Jackson, will be offered as part of the University of Michigan’s Dialogues on Diversity and the Diversity Theme Semester on Tuesday (March 16) at 4 p.m. in Rackham Auditorium.

The panelists will present their views and take questions from the audience. David Featherman, director of U-M’s Institute for Social Research, will be the moderator. The event is free and open to the public.

Thernstrom is the co-author (with her husband, Harvard historian Stephan

Thernstrom) of “America

in Black and White: One Nation Indivisible,” cited by the New York

Times Book Review as one of the notable books of 1997. She is currently

a senior fellow at the Manhattan

Institute and a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education.

She writes frequently for a variety of journals and newspapers including

the New Republic, Commentary,

the Wall Street Journal and the Washington

Post. Thernstrom received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1975.

Jacoby, also a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, writes extensively

on race issues and other subjects. Her most recent book is “Someone

Else’s House,” about race relations in three American cities—New

York, Atlanta and Detroit. Before joining the Manhattan Institute, Jacoby

was a senior writer and justice editor for Newsweek

and a deputy editor for the New York

Times op-ed page.

Jackson is the Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology

at the U-M, director of the Program

for Research on Black Americans and director of the Research

Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research. His most

recent work is “New Directions in Thinking About Race in America: African

Americans in a Diversifying Nation.” Jackson studies adult development,

aging, health, mental health and intergenerational relations among Black

Americans. In 1994 he received the Robert W. Kleemeier Award for Research

on Aging. He has co-authored “Aging in Black America” and edited “Life

in Black America.”

The March 16 panel discussion is sponsored by Dialogues on Diversity (www.dialogues.umich.edu). Information on the Diversity Theme Semester is available at www.umich.edu/~theme.

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