December 15, 2006
A Wrongheaded Focus on Class
Walter Benn Michaels is only the latest in a long line of writers to send us back to class as the fundamental axis of inequality. Wrongheaded but relatively harmless versions of this argument can be found in, for example, Richard Rorty's Achieving Our Country (1998), Paul Gilroy's Against Race (2000), some of the work of Orlando Patterson, and even recent articles by Adolph Reed Jr. (in The Nation and The Progressive) on the politics of post-Katrina New Orleans.
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