Selling Social Justice: Why the Ruling Class Loves Antiracism by Pan, Jennifer C.
Selling Social Justice: Why the Ruling Class Loves Antiracism by Pan, Jennifer C.

Selling Social Justice: Why the Ruling Class Loves Antiracism

Americans have been sold a version of social justice that fails to deliver The national racial reckoning...
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Author: Jennifer C. Pan
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Language: English
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Selling Social Justice: Why the Ruling Class Loves Antiracism by Pan, Jennifer C.

Selling Social Justice: Why the Ruling Class Loves Antiracism

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Selling Social Justice: Why the Ruling Class Loves Antiracism by Pan, Jennifer C.

Selling Social Justice: Why the Ruling Class Loves Antiracism

$75.99 $39.34
Author: Jennifer C. Pan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Americans have been sold a version of social justice that fails to deliver

The national racial reckoning that began in 2020 promised to radically restructure American society from the bottom up. But five years on, it has mainly served to strengthen the ruling class and deliver the rich an opportunity to rehabilitate a profoundly unequal economic order precisely at a moment when the stability of the system and the public's trust in it are drastically deteriorating.

Corporations have used antiracism to consolidate their political power and evade government regulation. Employers have surveilled and undermined workers through counterproductive diversity, equity, and inclusion trainings. Affluent professionals and Democratic politicians have exacerbated a stark class divide by pushing half-baked "racial equity" policies that come at the expense of the majority of working people. And the right has reacted to these developments by stoking a toxic culture war against "wokeness" that serves only as a distraction from the increasing economic hardship faced by Americans of all races.

Selling Social Justice investigates the rise and spread of contemporary antiracist ideology and shows how the rich came to embrace this particular form of justice. In this provocative and thoroughly researched account, Jennifer C. Pan explores why, in a twenty-first-century economy of increasing scarcity, antiracism is the wrong frame for understanding and fighting inequality.

Author: Jennifer C. Pan
Publisher: Verso
Published: 05/13/2025
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781804294222


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/02/2025

About the Author
Jennifer C. Pan is a writer in Los Angeles whose work has appeared in the Nation, the Atlantic, Dissent, Damage, and elsewhere. She was formerly a host of the Jacobin Show and a staff writer at the New Republic.
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