DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE
How can societies successfully pursue multiracial democracy?
In the latest episode of PolicyCast, Professors Khalil Muhammad and Archon Fung discuss the importance of multiracial democracy in societies around the world, and how important it is for the United States to grapple with how race shaped American democracy. “I think that many of the global experiences around transitional justice show how important it is to get this right,” Fung says, “because it’s very difficult to imagine a multiracial democracy going forward in which different groups deal with each other on a foundation of justice, unless they have a common understanding of the injustice that preceded that.” Fung and Muhammad explain the benefits as well as the barriers to building and sustaining healthy and equitable democracies. The challenge, “both in the United States and abroad, will only intensify as the world shuffles around issues of austerity, climate change, and the mobility of members of the Global South,” Muhammad says. |