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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828732703321

Autore

Delgado Richard

Titolo

Justice at war [[electronic resource] ] : civil liberties and civil rights during times of crisis / / Richard Delgado ; foreword by Jennifer L. Hochschild

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8147-2117-6

1-4175-8819-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HochschildJennifer

Disciplina

305.8/00973/090511

Soggetti

Racism - United States

Race discrimination - United States

Minorities - Legal status, laws, etc - United States

Minorities - Civil rights - United States

Emigration and immigration law - United States

Immigrants - Civil rights - United States

Intellectuals

United States Race relations

United States Politics and government 2001-2009

United States Social conditions 1980-2020

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.

Nota di contenuto

Ten Months -- Introducing Rodrigo -- A Terrible Tale -- Rodrigo Returns -- Justice at War -- Taming Terrorism -- Interracial Love, Sex, and Marriage -- Remembering and Forgetting -- Hate Speech, Free Speech: Speech as Struggle -- The Trouble with Principle -- On Causation and Displaced Rage: Forgetting What Provoked Your Indignation in the First Place -- Selling Short: The Rise and Fall of African American Fortunes -- Black Exceptionalism: Two Mistakes.

Sommario/riassunto

The status of civil rights in the United States today is as volatile an issue as ever, with many Americans wondering if new laws, implemented after the events of September 11, restrict more people than they protect. How will efforts to eradicate racism, sexism, and



xenophobia be affected by the measures our government takes in the name of protecting its citizens? Richard Delgado, one of the founding figures in the Critical Race Theory movement, addresses these problems with his latest book in the award-winning Rodrigo Chronicles. Employing the narrative device he and other Critical Race theorists made famous, Delgado assembles a cast of characters to discuss such urgent and timely topics as race, terrorism, hate speech, interracial relationships, freedom of speech, and new theories on civil rights stemming from the most recent war.In the course of this new narrative, Delgado provides analytical breakthroughs, offering new civil rights theories, new approaches to interracial romance and solidarity, and a fresh analysis of how whiteness and white privilege figure into the debate on affirmative action. The characters also discuss the black/white binary paradigm of race and show why it persists even at a time when the country's population is rapidly diversifying.