Michaels, Walter Benn

The trouble with diversity : how we learned to love identity and ignore inequality by Walter Benn Michaels ( Book )
6 editions published between 2006 and 2009 in English and French and held by 1,208 libraries worldwide
A critique of the American obsession with diversity argues that we are ignoring the ever-widening economic divide in American society, that diversity has created a false notion of social justice, and that we need to emphasize equality over diversity.

The American Renaissance reconsidered ( Book )
15 editions published between 1984 and 1991 in English and German and held by 929 libraries worldwide

The gold standard and the logic of naturalism : American literature at the turn of the century by Walter Benn Michaels ( Book )
10 editions published in 1987 in English and held by 898 libraries worldwide
The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism discusses ways of creating value in turn-of-the-century American capitalism. Focusing on such topics as the alienation of property, the invention of masochism, and the battle over free silver, it examines the participation of cultural forms in these phenomena.

Our America : nativism, modernism, and pluralism by Walter Benn Michaels ( Book )
7 editions published between 1995 and 1997 in English and held by 754 libraries worldwide
Michaels contends that the aesthetic movement of modernism and the social movement of nativism came together in the 1920s in their commitment to resolve the meaning of identity - linguistic, national, cultural, and racial. Just as the Johnson Immigration act of 1924, which excluded aliens, and the Indian Citizenship Act of the same year, which honored the truly native, reconceptualized national identity, so the major texts of American writers such as Cather, Faulkner, Hurston, and Williams reinvented identity as an object of pathos - something that can be lost or found, defended or betrayed. Our America is both a history and a critique of this invention, tracing its development from the white supremacism of the Progressive period through the cultural pluralism of the Twenties.

The shape of the signifier : 1967 to the end of history by Walter Benn Michaels ( Book )
6 editions published between 2004 and 2007 in English and held by 443 libraries worldwide

Against theory 2 : sentence meaning, hermeneutics : protocol of the fifty-second colloquy, 8 December 1985 by Steven Knapp ( Book )
2 editions published in 1986 in English and held by 80 libraries worldwide

James Welling : photographs 1977-90 by James Welling ( Book )
1 edition published in 1990 in German and held by 39 libraries worldwide

The imperial Shah : an informal biography by Gérard de Villiers ( Book )
1 edition published in 1976 in English and held by 38 libraries worldwide

The spy who died twice by Michael Bar-Zohar ( Book )
1 edition published in 1975 in English and held by 19 libraries worldwide

The gold standard and the logic of naturalism by Walter Benn Michaels ( Book )
2 editions published in 1987 in English and held by 17 libraries worldwide