Racing for innocence [[electronic resource] ] : whiteness, gender, and the backlash against affirmative action / / Jennifer L. Pierce
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Pierce Jennifer L. <1958->
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| Titolo: |
Racing for innocence [[electronic resource] ] : whiteness, gender, and the backlash against affirmative action / / Jennifer L. Pierce
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| Pubblicazione: | Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 331.13/30973 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Race relations |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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... |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Racing for innocence |
| ISBN: | 0-8047-8319-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910462120703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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