{"product_id":"trouble-with-diversity-book-walter-benn-michaels-9781250099334","title":"The Trouble with Diversity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Michaels has written a bracing polemic that should quicken the debate over what diversity really means, or should mean, in academia and beyond.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e If there's one thing Americans agree on, it'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's History Month. But in this \"eloquent\" (\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e) and \"captivating\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e) book, Walter Benn Michaels argues that our enthusiastic celebration of \"difference\" masks our neglect of America's vast and growing economic divide.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When it was first published in 2006, \u003ci\u003eThe Trouble with Diversity\u003c\/i\u003e provoked a firestorm of praise and condemnation--not only hailed as \"genius\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e), \"cogent\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e), and \"impossible to disagree with\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) it was excoriated as a \"wildly implausible\" product of \"the 'shock and awe' school of political argument\" (\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e) and \"Seething, misplaced, amnesiac resentment\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e). 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49886285529361,"sku":"GOR013806993","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50037761081617,"sku":"CIN1250099331G","price":307.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50769234526481,"sku":"CIN1250099331VG","price":349.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50957040353553,"sku":"GOR013347597","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51702543679761,"sku":"NIN9781250099334","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":54374592774417,"sku":"CIN1250099331A","price":292.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1250099331.jpg?v=1786127178","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/trouble-with-diversity-book-walter-benn-michaels-9781250099334","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}