aA thoughtful critique of identity politics in the nationas law
schools. . . . It is the great merit of Mr. Subotnikas work that he
moves us toward a single standard for judging scholarship and thus
helps create the conditions for the common enterprise of explaining
our social worldaand even, if we are lucky, improving it.a
--"The Wall Street Journal"
aMany outside the universities think that political correctness
faded from the campus in the mid-nineties. Dan Subotnik shows that
it never went away: it got tenure. This book is beautifully
written, consistently enjoyable, and replete with wonderful
anecdotes and memorable humor. It is also thoroughly researched and
reliable.a
--Christina Hoff Sommers, author of "Who Stole Feminism?"
aThis is the kind of fearless work that will read as common
sense a hundred years from now, to readers who will be as perplexed
by much of our current race writing as we are today by medieval
tracts about alchemy.a
--John McWhorter, author of "Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in
Black America"
aThe left knows how to dish out criticism. Can it take it? With
the publication of "Toxic Diversity," we'll find out. More subtle
and searching than other critiques of critical race theory,
critical legal studies, and feminist legal theory, Dan Subotnikas
book poses challenges that all progressives, myself included, will
need to consider.a
--Richard Delgado, Professor of Law and Derrick Bell Fellow in Law,
University of Pittsburgh Law School
"An entertaining and enlightening excursion into the world of
critical race and gender theory. Even those who disagree with
Subotnik's critique will appreciate the value of his analysis.
Toxic Diversity is aworthwhile contribution to the dialogue over
diversity in its many forms."--Steven G. Gey, Florida State
University College of Law
"This is not only an important book but also an engaging and
entertaining one. Subotnik offers much to both think about and
discuss."
--"PsycCRITIQUES"
Toxic Diversity offers an invigorating view of race, gender, and
law in America. Analyzing the work of preeminent legal scholars
such as Patricia Williams, Derrick Bell, Lani Guinier, and Richard
Delgado, Dan Subotnik argues that race and gender theorists poison
our social and intellectual environment by almost deliberately
misinterpreting racial interaction and data and turning white males
into victimizers. Far from energizing women and minorities,
Subotnik concludes, theorists divert their energies from
implementing America's social justice agenda.
Insisting, in the words of James Baldwin, that anot everything
that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it
is faced, a and that thoughtful Americans regardless of race and
gender can handle frank conversations about difficult topics,
Subotnikas critique of race and gender theory pulls no punches as
it confronts such inflammatory issues as single parenthood, the
merit system in academic and business settings, gender privilege in
the classroom, and crime.
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