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The trouble with diversity : how we learned to love identity and ignore inequality
Title
The trouble with diversity : how we learned to love identity and ignore inequality / Walter Benn Michaels.
ISBN
080507841X
9780805078411
9780805083316
0805083316
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Metropolitan Books, 2006.
Physical Description
ix, 243 pages ; 22 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 2018 4883: Number line: "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2" on title page verso indicates 1st printing. Dust jacket. Autograph: Samuel R. Delany Oct 18, Labrynth Books, NYC. Manuscript notes of Samuel R. Delany. Bookseller's label: 23.00 Trouble w/Michaels. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.
Summary
A critique of the American obsession with diversity argues that we are ignoring the ever-widening economic divide in American society, that diversity has created a false notion of social justice, and that we need to emphasize equality over diversity.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 26, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-231) and index.
Contents
ch. 1. The trouble with race
ch. 2. Our favorite victims
ch. 3. Richer, not better
ch. 4. Just and unjust rewards
ch. 5. Who are we? Why should we care?
ch. 6. Religion in politics : the good news.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Bookseller’s labels (Provenance)
Annotations (Provenance) - 20th century.
Also listed under
Samuel R. Delany Library (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library). Working Library.
Labrynth Books, bookseller.
United States New York (State) New York.
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