The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality - Paperback

by Walter Benn Michaels (Author)

"A decade [after this book's first publication], Michaels offers a new afterword on how our regime of equal-opportunity exploitation has only intensified ... He [posits] 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 [and argues] that we should pay less attention to the illusory distinction of culture, and more attention to the real discrepancies of class and wealth"--Page 4 of cover.

Author Biography

Walter Benn Michaels is a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "One of the most influential Americanists of his generation" (The Chronicle of Higher Education), he is the author of Our America and has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, and n+1. He lives in Chicago.