I am sure busy Brown University students won't welcome with giddy
expectation one more book recommendation. But this book really puts the
right slant on " diversity ": " The Trouble With Diversity- how we
learned to love identity and ignore inequality ", by Walter Benn
Michaels.
The book was published- and also mostly ignored - back in 2006. A back cover blurb says : " perhaps the most incisive book yet on how liberalism -in its polite,well-meaning way-missed the boat on the greatest liberal issue of our time : inequality.... worse, with its obsessive concern for diversity,has managed to make the problem invisible ".
As a supporter of " socialist " Bernie Sanders - just a few years younger- I recommend " The Trouble With Diversity " as an anti-dote to the effete identity politics of neo-liberal Democrats like Hillary Clinton.
To be sure, the white working class , poor whites, have experienced media " invisibility " for decades now. In general class trumps race as the root of social injustice.
The book was published- and also mostly ignored - back in 2006. A back cover blurb says : " perhaps the most incisive book yet on how liberalism -in its polite,well-meaning way-missed the boat on the greatest liberal issue of our time : inequality.... worse, with its obsessive concern for diversity,has managed to make the problem invisible ".
As a supporter of " socialist " Bernie Sanders - just a few years younger- I recommend " The Trouble With Diversity " as an anti-dote to the effete identity politics of neo-liberal Democrats like Hillary Clinton.
To be sure, the white working class , poor whites, have experienced media " invisibility " for decades now. In general class trumps race as the root of social injustice.
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