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The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy by Guinier, Lani; GUINIER, Lani; Torres, Gerald is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Addressing these issues is essential. Ignoring racial differences--race blindness--has failed. Focusing on individual achievement has diverted us from tackling pervasive inequalities. Now, in a powerful and challenging book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres propose a radical new way to confront race in the twenty-first century. <P> Given the complex relationship between race and power in America, engaging race means engaging standard winner-take-all hierarchies of power as well. Terming their concept political race, Guinier and Torres call for the building of grass-roots, cross-racial coalitions to remake those structures of power by fostering public participation in politics and reforming the process of democracy. Their illuminating and moving stories of political race in action include the coalition of Hispanic and black leaders who devised the Texas Ten Percent Plan to establish equitable state college admissions criteria, and the struggle of black workers in North Carolina for fair working conditions that

Who reads The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy?

Author

Guinier, Lani; GUINIER, Lani; Torres, Gerald

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674004696

Category

science

Subjects

Science, Political Science, Law

Rating

4.07 / 5 (68 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13