"The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy" by Lani Guinier, Gerald Torres
"The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy" by Lani Guinier, Gerald Torres
The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures. Third printing
Наrvаrd Univеrsity Press | 2003 | ISBN: 0674010841 0674004698 | 402 pages | PDF/epub | 1 MB
The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures. Third printing
Наrvаrd Univеrsity Press | 2003 | ISBN: 0674010841 0674004698 | 402 pages | PDF/epub | 1 MB
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.
Focusing on individual achievement has diverted us from tackling pervasive inequalities. Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres propose a radical new way to confront race in the twenty-first century.
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
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