Thought paralysis : the virtues of discrimination /

"Given the enormous struggles, efforts and money expended on the equalities enterprise, why has more progress not been made? And further, why have things actually become worse in some circumstances? It is argued this has occurred because:- The values of Equality have been bureaucratized, allowi...

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Main Author: Dalal, Farhad
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Karnac Books, 2012
Series:Explorations in psycho-social studies series.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: thought paralysis
  • 2. The struggle to live and let live: the liberal world view
  • 3. Equal strokes for different folks: the legislature
  • 4. Manufacturing kinds of people: processes of inclusion and exclusion
  • 5. The human condition: psychology
  • 6. Counting discriminations
  • 7. Corrupting the liberal ideal: diversity in organizational life
  • 8. Perverting the liberal ideal: fear and control in the Panopticon
  • 9. The difference that dare not speak its name: the lexicon police
  • 10. The vicissitudes of discrimination
  • 11. Islam: the new black
  • 12. Tolerating discrimination: discriminatory tolerance
  • 13. The road to nowhere: conceptual cul-de-sacs.