Miner's Canary

Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy

BY LANI GUINIER AND GERALD TORRES

Brief Description:
"'To my friends, I look like a black boy. To white people I don't know, I look like a wanna-be punk. To the cops I look like a criminal,' explains Lani Guinier's 14-year-old biracial son. Mixing myriad personal examples with hard data and analysis of biased news reports, Guinier and Torres cogently and forcefully argue that `color-blind' solutions are not `attaining racial justice and ensuring a healthy democratic process.' Arguing for a multifaceted conception of 'biological race, politcal race, historical race, cultural race,' their purpose here is to find terms for discussing `the lived experience of race in America' and for moving toward a society that values...difference."-PW

Harvard Univ. 2003 392 PP. Paper

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