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01-26-2007
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Yeah, this book looks interesting. For liberals class is just about treating the poor politely i.e. “classism”. And let’s shoot whoever came up that euphemism “economic diversity”.
Anyways here’s sort of critique from a magazine (I don’t like) Colorlines of this book:
http://www.colorlines.com/article.php?ID=169
If this interests you, you might also want to take a look at the discussions over at The Valve on Michaels.
Here
thanks Kevin. i hunted down the links, here:
The Trouble With Diversity: This Will Have Been a Valve Book Event
Although posts on other topics will begin appearing now, The Trouble With Diversity event it not quite finished yet. We still have a few contributors whose choked schedules have prevented them from participating. Also, as noted previously, Walter Benn Michaels will be responding to the posts and comments in the coming…
The Trouble With Diversity: Cultural or Neurolinguistic Uniqueness?
[Post inspired by a recent exchange on Unfogged.] I. Preserving Cultural Uniqueness On its face, the most salient criticism of Michaels’ discussion of language extinction invokes the idea that every language offers a unique perspective on the world—a perspective which is, if lost, irrevocably so. The weak form of this criticism…
The Trouble With Diversity: Aspirin for a Gaping Chest Wound
From Beyond Madison Avenue—a blog devoted to advertising and marketing professionals—a link to an interview with Walter Benn Michaels.
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Today in Slate, Alan Wolfe writes a classic “with all due respect” review of The Trouble With Diversity: Michaels pictures himself as the tough guy willing to take on the hard issues of class while everyone else opts for warm and fuzzy bromides promising cultural and racial diversity. Indeed, he argues,…
The Trouble With Diversity: Becoming Armenian, or, Egoyan’s Crowbar
For Walter Benn Michaels, “culture” is a comforting fiction based on an unscientific racial logic, an incoherent theory of historical transmission, and a discredited linguistic essentialism. I’ll leave the last of those arguments to the experts who will show up later this week; I’ll address the first two today—albeit obliquely, through…
The Trouble With Diversity: A Prelude
As a prelude to next week’s discussion of The Trouble With Diversity, I’m providing some links to recent articles by and about Walter Benn Michaels and the conversaions they elicited. I’ll follow those with links to scholarly articles about the two books from which The Trouble With Diversity draws its arguments,…
Walter Benn Michaels’ The Trouble With Diversity: A Valve Book Event
Starting on Monday, October 2nd, the Valve will play host to a discussion of Walter Benn Michaels’ The Trouble With Diversity. Several Valve regulars will participate, as will a number of prominent scholars from outside the discipline. Dr. Michaels has graciously agreed to respond to posts and comments. If you have…
I think focusing on material politics is a good direction for the left, but I would dispute that race isn’t material. Usually, people in positions of power get to define what material issues are, and they do so in very narrow, presentist, self-serving ways. I’m not sure if there’s a political methodology that can be used to get around the subject-dependent issue of defining material struggles.
Nail. Head. Bang!
And there it goes. Although I wonder why he doesn’t mention partially why we are so comfortable with diversity being poverty . Because the poor look racially different and that does have connotations and it’s not jsut Black/white. Why is it that almost without fail the diverse membership is not jsut racially but also economically represntative.
IF that made any sense
*mindmelds with BA* Yes.
The whole analysis does somewhat seem to ignore the reason why its possible to pull off the identity dodge - the increased racialisation of the poor as immigrant labor is utilised more and more as a cheap source of helotry.
It’s a small problem with a lot of analysii of the the poverty system, because there’s this strange urge felt to somehow subsume either hte racist nature of it all under matters of class, or subsume the classist nature of is all under matters of race.
Less either/or thinking would be nice, why can’t the two matters be dealt with simultaneously, as they indeed deserve?