Toxic diversity : race, gender, and law talk in America / / Dan Subotnik
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Subotnik Dan
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| Titolo: |
Toxic diversity : race, gender, and law talk in America / / Dan Subotnik
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : New York Universitry Press, c2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 342.7308/73 |
| Soggetto topico: | Race discrimination - Law and legislation - United States |
| Sex and law - United States | |
| Critical legal studies - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Race relations Philosophy |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-322) and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Learning to think about race and gender -- Smelling the sewers but not the flowers -- The critical race theory show -- Race, gender, jokes, thinking, and feeling -- The unbearable burden of being black -- Pink and blue -- Chicken little goes to law school -- The tall tales of women teachers -- Unwed motherhood and apple pie -- A casino society -- Crime stories. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Toxic Diversity offers an invigorating view of race, gender, and law in America. Analyzing the work of preeminent legal scholars such as Patricia Williams, Derrick Bell, Lani Guinier, and Richard Delgado, Dan Subotnik argues that race and gender theorists poison our social and intellectual environment by almost deliberately misinterpreting racial interaction and data and turning white males into victimizers. Far from energizing women and minorities, Subotnik concludes, theorists divert their energies from implementing America's social justice agenda. Insisting, in the words of James Baldwin, t |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Toxic diversity |
| ISBN: | 0-8147-8659-6 |
| 1-4294-1418-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910806206703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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