The Trouble With Diversity by Walter Benn Michaels
How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
This book argues that the contemporary liberal emphasis on diversity, multicultural representation, and identity politics diverts attention from economic inequality and the need for redistribution; by treating recognition and representation as ends in themselves, culturalist approaches and identity-based literary theory undermine a politics of economic equality and make it harder to pursue substantive social justice.
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- 2006
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