{"product_id":"the-enigma-of-diversity-the-language-of-race-and-the-limits-of-racial-justice","title":"The Enigma of Diversity: The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiversity these days is a hallowed American value  widely shared and honored. Thats a remarkable change from the Civil Rights erabut does this public commitment to diversity constitute a civil rights victory? What does diversity mean in contemporary America  and what are the effects of efforts to support it?  Ellen Berrey digs deep into those questions in The Enigma of Diversity. Drawing on six years of fieldwork and historical sources dating back to the 1950s and making extensive use of three case studies from widely varying arenashousing redevelopment in Chicagos Rogers Park neighborhood  affirmative action in the University of Michigans admissions program  and the workings of the human resources department at a Fortune 500 companyBerrey explores the complicated  contradictory  and even troubling meanings and uses of diversity as it is invoked by different groups for different  often symbolic ends. In each case  diversity affirms inclusiveness  especially in the most coveted jobs and colleges  yet it resists fundamental change in the practices and cultures that are the foundation of social inequality. Berrey shows how this has led racial progress itself to be reimagined  transformed from a legal fight for fundamental rights to a celebration of the competitive advantages afforded by cultural differences.  Powerfully argued and surprising in its conclusions  The Enigma of Diversity reveals the true cost of the public embrace of diversity: the taming of demands for racial justice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986109657141,"sku":"ByrdShop_022624623X","price":30.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226246239.jpg?v=1770887285","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-enigma-of-diversity-the-language-of-race-and-the-limits-of-racial-justice","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}