{"product_id":"the-trouble-with-diversity-how-we-learned-to-love-identity-and-ignore-inequality-paperback","title":"The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWalter Benn Michaels\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalter Benn Michaels\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. \"One of the most influential Americanists of his generation\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Chronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e), he is the author of\u003ci\u003e Our America\u003c\/i\u003e and has contributed to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 14, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43152472703039,"sku":"9781250099334","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/HF9QTjW_lu9781250099334_9bbe4f0f-1e46-456d-a0e4-cd63a793e836.jpg?v=1776937675","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/the-trouble-with-diversity-how-we-learned-to-love-identity-and-ignore-inequality-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}