| Edition |
Tenth anniversary edition, First Picador edition. |
| Description |
xi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION & INEQUALITY. When it was first published in 2006, The Trouble with Diversity provoked a firestorm of praise and condemnation - not only hailed as "genius" (The Economist), "cogent" (The New Yorker), and "impossible to disagree with" (The Washington Post) it was excoriated as a "wildly implausible" product of "the 'shock and awe' school of political argument" (Slate) and "Seething, misplaced, amnesiac resentment" (The Nation). Now, a decade later, Michaels offers a new afterword on how our regime of equal-opportunity exploitation has only intensified. Magnificently iconoclastic, he demonstrates that commitments to diversity fail to offer a premise for social justice and in fact legitimize the economic forces that drive inequality rather than offering a resistance or even a critique. Most importantly, he makes the case that we should pay less attention to the illusory distinction of culture, and more attention to the real discrepancies of class and wealth. |
| Note |
First published by Metropolitan Books. |
| Subject |
Social classes -- United States.
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Equality -- United States.
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Multiculturalism -- United States.
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Race awareness -- United States.
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Group identity -- United States.
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Social justice -- United States.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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Equality. (OCoLC)fst00914456
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Group identity. (OCoLC)fst00948442
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Multiculturalism. (OCoLC)fst01028836
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Race awareness. (OCoLC)fst01086455
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Social classes. (OCoLC)fst01122346
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Social justice. (OCoLC)fst01122603
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| ISBN |
9781250099334 |
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1250099331 |
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