In her new book, The Imperative of Integration, University of Michigan professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies Elizabeth Anderson finds that racial integration is an imperative for racial justice. Her study finds that non-integrationist remedies—such as multiculturalist celebrations of racial diversity or economic investments in de facto segregated schools and neighborhoods or more rigorous enforcement of anti-discrimination law—are insufficient because they fail to address the full range of effects of white-black segregation on group inequality. Racial segregation is a fundamental cause of racial injustice in three fundamental ways: 1) it blocks African American’s access to economic opportunities; 2) it causes racial stigmatization and discrimination, and 3) it blocks both democratic communication and accountability. A précis of Anderson’s book, published by Princeton University Press, is available in the July/August 2011 issue of Poverty and Race, the publication of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council: http://prrac.org/newsletters/julaug2011.pdf