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02336aam a2200337 i 4500 001 5274A7C4BC2911EAAC3CDF0297128E48 003 SILO 005 20200702010020 008 200229s2020 nyu b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2019056483 020 $a 1609809793 020 $a 9781609809799 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HM1271 $b .J34 2020 082 00 $a 305.800973 $2 23 100 1 $a Jacoby, Russell, $e author. 245 10 $a On diversity : $b the eclipse of the individual in a global era / $c Russell Jacoby. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Seven Stories Press, $c [2020] 300 $a ix, 229 pages ; $c 22 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The myth of diversity -- "A diversity crisis!" : sneakers, species, and speech -- Playing with diversity -- Diversity and its vicissitudes : across the centuries -- Diversity and its vicissitudes : the modern period. 520 $a "Diversity. You've heard the term everywhere--in the news, in the universities, at the television awards shows. Maybe even in the corporate world, where diversity initiatives have become de rigueur. But what does the term actually mean? Where does it come from? What are its intellectual precedents? Moreover, how do we square our love affair with diversity with the fact that the world seems to be becoming more and more, well, homogeneous? With a lucid, straightforward prose that rises above the noise, one of America's greatest intellectual gadflies, Russell Jacoby, takes these questions squarely on. Discussing diversity (or lack thereof) in language, fashion, childhood experience, political structure, and the history of ideas, Jacoby offers in plain language a surprising and penetrating analysis of our cultural moment. In an age where our public thinkers seem to be jumping over one another to have the latest correct opinion, Jacoby offers a most dangerous, and liberating, injunction: to stop and think"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Cultural pluralism $z United States. 650 0 $a Individualism $z United States. 650 0 $a Social systems. 650 0 $a Globalization $x Social aspects $z United States. 941 $a 1 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20200702010355.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5274A7C4BC2911EAAC3CDF0297128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search