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Article: The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy. (nonfiction reviews).(Brief Article)
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- Black Issues Book Review
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- March 1, 2002
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The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy by Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres Harvard University Press, February 2002 $27.95, ISBN 0-674-00469-8
Legal scholars Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres use the canary--which miner's employed to detect noxious gas in the coal mines--as a metaphor for exploring race in America. The Miner's Canary offers several compelling anecdotes that iterate the message: If we ignore issues of race and racism, we do so at our own peril.
In what is presented as a series of case studies, Guinier and Torres alternately detail stories of efforts by African Americans and Hispanics to assert what the two ...
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... ... Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres, The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power and Transforming Democracy, ought to be remembered during this ... are still Black and Brown people-the Miner's canary. We would do well, as the ...
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