Economic diversity is just as irrelevant to actual equality as racial diversity has been.
Walter Benn Michaels
Walter Benn Michaels is a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of several books of literary criticism and The Trouble With Diversity.
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The Trouble With Diversity
“The rich are different from you and me” is a famous remark supposedly made by F. Scott Fitzgerald to Ernest Hemingway, although what made it famous — or at least made Hemingway famously repeat it — was not the remark itself but Hemingway’s reply: “Yes, they have more money.” In other words, to Hemingway, the […]