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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808611003321

Autore

Pierce Jennifer L. <1958->

Titolo

Racing for innocence [[electronic resource] ] : whiteness, gender, and the backlash against affirmative action / / Jennifer L. Pierce

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8047-8319-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Disciplina

331.13/30973

Soggetti

Affirmative action programs - United States - Public opinion

White people - United States - Attitudes

Lawyers - United States - Attitudes

Women lawyers - United States - Attitudes

Racism - United States

Mass media and public opinion - United States

White people - Race identity - United States

Collective memory - United States

Public opinion - United States

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : telling stories about race in an era of colorblindness -- Innocence and injury : the politics of cultural memory in print news media -- Filming racial progress : the transformation of white male innocence -- Racing for innocence : stories of disavowal and exclusion -- Stand by your man : women lawyers and affirmative action -- Small talk : a short story -- Commentary : ambivalent racism -- Conclusion : still racing for innocence.

Sommario/riassunto

How is it that recipients of white privilege deny the role they play in reproducing racial inequality? Racing for Innocence addresses this question by examining the backlash against affirmative action in the late 1980's and early 1990's-just as courts, universities, and other institutions began to end affirmative action programs. This book recounts the stories of elite legal professionals at a large corporation



with a federally mandated affirmative action program, as well as the cultural narratives about race, gender, and power in the news media and Hollywood films. Though...