商品簡介
A"A withering examination of how the celebration of cultural and ethnic difference obscures our yawning economic divide . . . This is a refreshing, angry, and important book.A" A--The Atlantic Monthly Acclaimed as A"eloquentA" (Chicago Tribune), A"cogentA" (The New Yorker), and A"impossible to disagree withA" (The Washington Post); excoriated as a A"wildly implausibleA" product of A"the A'shock and awe' school of political argumentA" (Slate), The Trouble with Diversity argues that our enthusiastic celebration of A"differenceA" masks our neglect of the difference that really mattersA--the one between rich and poor. A magnificent skewer of pieties, Walter Benn Michaels takes on the many manifestations of our devotionA--from affirmative action, to the worship of multiculturalism, to the obsession with heritage and identityA--demonstrating that diversity offers a false vision of social justice, one that conveniently costs us nothing. In a daring break with both the left and the right, he calls for less attention to the illusory distinction of culture and more attention to the real discrepancies of class and wealth.
作者簡介
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.