December 15, 2006

History, Class, and Race Cannot Be Separated

By MARIA E. MONTOYA

Once we cut through Michaels's inflammatory rhetoric, I take him to be saying that, when it comes to the curriculum we teach and the students we admit, class matters more than race. I find his arguments compelling, if not entirely persuasive. At the very least, Michaels opens up a conversation that encourages us to rethink our ideas about what constitutes diversity, particularly in light of the recent defeat of affirmative action by Michigan voters. However, I take issue with his apparent

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