Miners Canary
Miners Canary 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. Ignoring…
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Miners Canary
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. Ignoring racial differences--race blindness--has failed. Addressing these issues is essential.
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. Focusing on individual achievement has diverted us from tackling pervasive inequalities. 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.