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Walter Benn Michaels is a literary theorist, known as the author of Our America: Nativism, Modernism and Pluralism (1995) and The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History (2004). [more]

Celebrating Difference: The Trouble With Diversity

Walter Benn Michaels

November 1, 2006

00:48:35

Author Walter Benn Michaels looks at how the concept of diversity raises obstacles to equality and full participation by African Americans, women, and other marginalized groups.

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

Author: Walter Benn Michaels

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks (2007)

Binding: Paperback, 256 pages

The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History

Author: Walter Benn Michaels

Publisher: Princeton University Press (2006)

Binding: Paperback, 232 pages

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