Argues that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has reovated rather than replaced an earlier commitment to r4acial identity and asserts that the idea of culture, far from constituting a challenge to racism,...

"Michaels has written a bracing polemic that should quicken the debate over what diversity really means, or should mean, in academia and beyond."-The New York Review of BooksIf there's one thing Americans agree on, it's the value of...