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“Michaels has written a bracing polemic that should quicken the debate over what diversity really means; or should mean; in academia and beyond.”―The New York Review of BooksIf there’s one thing Americans agree on; it’s the value of diversity. Our corporations vie for slots in the Diversity Top 50; our universities brag about minority recruiting; and every month is Somebody’s History Month. But in this “eloquent” (Chicago Tribune) and “captivating” (Los Angeles Times) book; Walter Benn Michaels argues that our enthusiastic celebration of “difference” masks our neglect of America’s vast and growing economic divide.When it was first published in 2006; The Trouble with Diversity provoked a firestorm of praise and condemnation―not only hailed as “genius” (The Economist); “cogent” (The New Yorker); and “impossible to disagree with” (The Washington Post) it was excoriated as a “wildly implausible” product of “the ‘shock and awe’ school of political argument” (Slate) and “Seething; misplaced; amnesiac resentment” (The Nation). Now; a decade later; Michaels offers a new afterword on how our regime of equal-opportunity exploitation has only intensified. Magnificently iconoclastic; he demonstrates 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. Most importantly; he makes the case that we should pay less attention to the illusory distinction of culture; and more attention to the real discrepancies of class and wealth.