In the second part of a lecture series on racial preferencing, author and professor Rachel Moran will present the other side of an issue that is not just black and white.

Moran, author and professor of law at the University of California-Berkeley, will speak Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union about “Diversity in a Post-Affirmative Action World.” The lecture is free and open to the public.

Pat Miller, director of the Committee on Lectures, said Moran was originally invited to lecture at Iowa State last spring.

“We’re just happy she could find the time to come this fall, and how good it is that she was able to speak right after Ward Connerly so that students have the opportunity to hear a variety of perspectives,” Miller said. Connerly gave a speech titled “The Failure of Racial Preferences” Tuesday night.

According to a Lectures biography, Moran received her degree in psychology with honors at Stanford University in 1978.

In 1981, Moran graduated from Yale Law School and was the editor of the Yale Journal.

She has written on the legal aspects of bilingual education policy and other diversity issues. Some of her publications in progress, in the press or under review, include “Interracial Intimacy” and “Bilingual Education, Immigration and the Culture of Disinvestiment.”

Moran also has written several articles and book chapters, including “Neither Black Nor White;” “Critical Face Feminism,” which was published in Full Circle; and “Getting a Foot in the Door: Hispanics and the Push for Equal Educational Opportunity.”

Azael Villanueva, president of the Hispanic Heritage Month Planning Committee, said Moran will present an intelligent take on both the adversity minorities face and Proposition 209, the California law outlawing preferencing in schools and businesses.

The speech will be interesting, Villanueva said, “especially since her view is from a Latina’s perspective and that of a bilingual professional.

“It will be an honor to have her here as our Hispanic Heritage Month guest,” Villanueva said.

Moran’s speech is sponsored by Intercollegiate Studies, Provost Office, Hispanic Heritage Month Planning Committee, Division of Student Affairs, University Diversity Steering Committee, Affirmative Action Office, Human Resources, Services and Committee on Lectures (funded by GSB).