Thought Paralysis

Walks the thin line between the apologists who deify difference and the zealots and bigots who vilify the different, to argue that to create a fairer world, we need to enhance our capacities for discrimination, not stifle them.

Farhad Dalal

CHAPTER ONE Introduction: thought paralysis, CHAPTER TWO The struggle to live and let live: the liberal world view, CHAPTER THREE Equal strokes for different folks: the legislature, CHAPTER FOUR Manufacturing kinds of people: processes of inclusion and exclusion CHAPTER FIVE The human condition: psychology, CHAPTER SIX Counting discriminations, CHAPTER SEVEN Corrupting the liberal ideal: diversity in organizational life, CHAPTER EIGHT Perverting the liberal ideal: fear and control, in the Panopticon CHAPTER NINE The difference that dare not speak its name: the lexicon police, CHAPTER TEN The vicissitudes of discrimination, CHAPTER ELEVEN Islam: the new black, CHAPTER TWELVE Tolerating discrimination: discriminatory tolerance, CHAPTER THIRTEEN The road to nowhere: conceptual cul-de-sacs