The Miner's Canary : Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy / Lani Guinier, Gerald Torres.
2022
E184.A1 ǂb G94 2003eb
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The Miner's Canary : Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy / Lani Guinier, Gerald Torres.
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9780674038035
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2002
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource (400 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674038035 doi
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E184.A1 ǂb G94 2003eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.8
Summary
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 Torres call for the building of grass-roots, cross-racial coalitions to remake those structures of power by fostering public participation in politics and reforming the process of democracy. Their illuminating and moving stories of political race in action include the coalition of Hispanic and black leaders who devised the Texas Ten Percent Plan to establish equitable state college admissions criteria, and the struggle of black workers in North Carolina for fair working conditions that drew on the strength and won the support of the entire local community. The aim of political race is not merely to remedy racial injustices, but to create truly participatory democracy, where people of all races feel empowered to effect changes that will improve conditions for everyone. In a book that is ultimately not only aspirational but inspirational, Guinier and Torres envision a social justice movement that could transform the nature of democracy in America.
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The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Prologue
1. Political Race and Magical Realism
2. A Critique of Colorblindness
3. Race as a Political Space
4. Rethinking Conventions of Zero-Sum Power
5. Enlisting Race to Resist Hierarchy
6. The Problem Democracy Is Supposed to Solve
7. Whiteness of a Different Color?
8. Watching the Canary
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Contents
Prologue
1. Political Race and Magical Realism
2. A Critique of Colorblindness
3. Race as a Political Space
4. Rethinking Conventions of Zero-Sum Power
5. Enlisting Race to Resist Hierarchy
6. The Problem Democracy Is Supposed to Solve
7. Whiteness of a Different Color?
8. Watching the Canary
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index