Walter Benn Michaels

Walter Benn Michaels is a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality (2006),  which has just appeared in a tenth anniversary edition, and, most recently, of The Beauty of a Social Problem: Photography, Autonomy, Economy (2015).

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What Is the Left Without Identity Politics? What Is the Left Without Identity Politics?

Four writers consider the question dividing the Democratic Party.

Dec 16, 2016 / That’s Debatable / Walter Benn Michaels, Charles W. Mills, Linda Hirshman, and Carla Murphy

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