A provocative critique of the American obsession with diversity argues that, by celebrating "difference," we are ignoring the ever-widening economic divide in American society between the poor and the wealthy, that diversity has created a false notion of social justice, and that we need to emphasize equality over diversity. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
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.