Critical race narratives [[electronic resource] ] : a study of race, rhetoric, and injury / / Carl Gutiérrez-Jones

• Autore: Gutiérrez-Jones Carl Scott
• Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8/00973
• Soggetto topico: Racism - United States; Minorities - United States - Social conditions; Racism - United States - Historiography; Minorities - United States - Social conditions - Historiography; Narration (Rhetoric); Discourse analysis, Narrative; Hate speech - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations; United States Race relations Historiography
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-205) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The contours of the contemporary race debate -- Color-blindness, acting out, and culture -- Critical race stories and the problem of remedy -- Historical properties, uncommon grounds -- The sociology of racialized crime -- Genetic liabilities and the paradox of altruism.
• Sommario/riassunto: The beating of Rodney King, the killing of Amadou Diallo, and the LAPD Rampart Scandal: these events have been interpreted by the courts, the media and the public in dramatically conflicting ways. Critical Race Narratives examines what is at stake in these conflicts and, in so doing, rethinks racial strife in the United States as a highly-charged struggle over different methods of reading and writing. Focusing in particular on the practice and theorization of narrative strategies, Gutiérrez-Jones engages many of the most influential texts in the recent race debates including The Bell Curve, Am
• Titolo autorizzato: Critical race narratives
• ISBN: 0-8147-3333-6; 0-585-43486-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996582071003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Critical America.