My Northeastern colleague, Professor of Law and Biology Jonathan Kahn has penned a fascinating exploration of how the concept of diversity (often racial diversity) has unwittingly contributed to the perpetuation of biological conceptions of race in a variety of settings: The Uses of Diversity (Columbia Univ. Press. 2025) His analysis is far more penetrating, but the simplest version is that using “diversity” as the conceptual vehicle to promote racial justice (a la Bakke) opens the door to all sorts of mischief. If we need a diverse workforce, or a diverse Cabinet, or a diverse military, or a diverse pool of test subjects [as we do!], we then are forced to identify characteristics [often wrongly described as immutable] that unequivocally differentiate one person from another. Perhaps some form of anti-subordination principle might have been a better bet. You can find the book here https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-uses-of-diversity/9780231220132/