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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780674004696
- Book Title
- Miner's Canary : Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy
- Book Series
- The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Genre
- Law, Political Science, Social Science
- Topic
- Political Process / General, Discrimination, Discrimination & Race Relations, Civil Rights
- Item Weight
- 24.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674004698
ISBN-13
9780674004696
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1951165
Product Key Features
Book Title
Miner's Canary : Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Political Process / General, Discrimination, Discrimination & Race Relations, Civil Rights
Publication Year
2002
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Law, Political Science, Social Science
Book Series
The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
24.9 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-039629
Reviews
Mixing myriad personal examples with hard data and analysis of biased news reports, Guinier and Torres cogently and forcefully argue that "color-blinded" solutions are not "attaining racial justice and ensuring a healthy democratic process"...[The authors] grapple intelligently and with passionate wit with such explosive topics as racial profiling and the elusiveness of racial identification and identity...making this one of the most provocative and challenging books on race produced in years., Deep in the mines, a distressed canary is a warning that there's poison in the air. Professor Lani Guinier...and Gerald Torres...contend that in America, race is like a miner's canary: Injustices experienced by people of color warn of systemic toxins that threaten everyone...In a passionate call for social change and progressive action, Guinier and Torres convincingly argue that a colorblind approach to deeply entrenched problems does not work; it only inhibits democratic engagement and reinforces existing power structures. Citing the Rev Martin Luther King Jr.'s message that freeing black people from injustice will free America itself, Torres and Guinier urge progressives to use racial awareness as an entryway to political activism., How can a book that advocates for something as ethereal-sounding as the "magical realism of political race" amount to a powerfully reasoned and concretely grounded call for the proliferation of multiracial coalitions in challenges to inequality and exclusion in American society? Law professors Guinier and Torres have managed to do so in their gracefully written book, which is both an analysis of the distinctive contours of the post-Civil Rights Era's racial fault lines and a manifesto for a politics that is decidedly color conscious. Indeed, the purpose of the book is to challenge not simply the calls for colorblindedness on the part of conservatives, but more significantly, similar calls on the part of political leftists., Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres consider how blacks' own perceptions of their plight might lead to a new political movement. In The Miner's Canary , Guinier and Torres argue that rather than internalize their social dysfunction as being their "own fault," many blacks have developed a critical perspective on "the system." Refusing to accept the mythology of the American Dream--"that those who succeed or fail invariably do so according to their individual merit"--blacks "appreciate the necessity and efficacy of collective political struggle"...Guinier and Torres announce a bold agenda: "to use the experiences of people of color as the basis for fundamental social change that will benefit not only blacks and Hispanics but other disadvantaged social groups.", Legal scholars Guinier and Torres invite the public to consider, among other indicators, the plight of young black men, long the primary targets of racial profiling on the part of law-enforcement agencies...Those who insist that American courts dispense justice equally get a stern lesson with statistics the authors cite to the contrary, while civil-rights activists will find much to motivate them in the authors' prescriptions, which include grassroots political organizing, consensus building, "enlisting race to resist hierarchy", and other measures. A useful, provocative, wounded critique of the status quo., Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres consider how blacks' own perceptions of their plight might lead to a new political movement. In The Miner's Canary, Guinier and Torres argue that rather than internalize their social dysfunction as being their "own fault," many blacks have developed a critical perspective on "the system." Refusing to accept the mythology of the American Dream--"that those who succeed or fail invariably do so according to their individual merit"--blacks "appreciate the necessity and efficacy of collective political struggle"...Guinier and Torres announce a bold agenda: "to use the experiences of people of color as the basis for fundamental social change that will benefit not only blacks and Hispanics but other disadvantaged social groups."
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
323.1/73
Table Of Content
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
Synopsis
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. In this work, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres propose a way to confront race in the 21st century.
LC Classification Number
E184.A1G94 2001
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- u***3 (664)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseItem arrived as described! A++ Packaged extremely well - the postmaster sat the package outside where it got rained on - due to the extra layer of bubble wrap all of the books were dry! Thank you for this extra care.