false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171593256m/108940.jpg 108940 2 <div><div><div><b>A brilliant assault on our obsession with every difference except the one that really matters&#8212;the difference between rich and poor</b></div></div><div> </div><div>If there&#8217;s one thing Americans agree on, it&#8217;s the value of diversity. Our corporations vie for slots in the Diversity Top 50, our universities brag about minority recruiting, and every month is Somebody&#8217;s History Month. But in this provocative new book, Walter Benn Michaels argues that our enthusiastic celebration of &#8220;difference&#8221; masks our neglect of America&#8217;s vast and growing economic divide. Affirmative action in schools has not made them more open, it&#8217;s just guaranteed that the rich kids come in the appropriate colors. Diversity training in the workplace has not raised anybody&#8217;s salary (except maybe the diversity trainers&#8217;) but it has guaranteed that when your job is outsourced, your culture will be treated with respect.</div><div><br>With lacerating prose and exhilarating wit, Michaels takes on the many manifestations of our devotion to diversity, from companies apologizing for slavery, to a college president explaining why there aren&#8217;t more women math professors, to the codes of conduct in the new &#8220;humane corporations.&#8221; Looking at the books we read, the TV shows we watch, and the lawsuits we bring, Michaels shows that diversity has become everyone&#8217;s sacred cow precisely because it offers a false vision of social justice, one that conveniently costs us nothing. <i>The Trouble with Diversity</i> urges us to start thinking about real justice, about equality instead of diversity. Attacking both the right and the left, it will be the most controversial political book of the year. </div></div> 104989 3 10 2006 The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality total:105|5:20|4:38|3:30|2:10|1:7| 105 369 200 28 4 6 false false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 12:19:19 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 12:23:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Tue Dec 04 13:12:25 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 04 13:16:20 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Apr 18 13:17:36 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 13:18:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Tue Oct 02 00:01:03 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 02 00:01:51 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 11:01:06 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 11:26:53 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Oct 30 07:28:17 -0700 2007 Mon Dec 10 10:50:41 -0800 2007 more...]]> 1 1 false false Tue May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 20:38:50 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 20:51:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 24 16:17:40 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 16:21:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 true false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 04 09:20:07 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 28 06:34:05 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 12 18:28:35 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 07 22:02:12 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun May 24 10:11:01 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 10:11:01 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Feb 26 20:41:34 -0800 2007 Mon Feb 26 20:55:17 -0800 2007
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