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17%OFFLani Guinier - The Miner's Canary - 9780674010840 - V9780674010840
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The Miner's Canary

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Description for The Miner's Canary Paperback. Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. In this work, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres propose a way to confront race in the 21st century. Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures. Num Pages: 400 pages, 3 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; JFFJ; JFSL; JPA; JPH; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 572.

Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Addressing these issues is essential. Ignoring racial differences--race blindness--has failed. Focusing on individual achievement has diverted us from tackling pervasive inequalities. Now, in a powerful and challenging book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres propose a radical new way to confront race in the twenty-first century.

Given the complex relationship between race and power in America, engaging race means engaging standard winner-take-all hierarchies of power as well. Terming their concept "political race," Guinier and ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Series
The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674010840
SKU
V9780674010840
Shipping Time
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About Lani Guinier
Lani Guinier was Bennett Boskey Professor of Law, Emerita, at Harvard Law School. Gerald Torres is H.O. Head Centennial Professor in Real Property Law, University of Texas Law School.

Reviews for The Miner's Canary
Guinier and Torres issue a clarion call for the progressive possibilities of racial politics in the twenty-first century. The Miner's Canary convincingly demonstrates the positive role that racial identification has played and can continue to play in expanding, deepening, and enriching American democracy.
Melissa Nobles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Miner's Canary is conceptually imaginative and politically inspiring. It ... Read more

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