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Racing for innocence : whiteness, gender, and the backlash against affirmative action / Jennifer L. Pierce.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pierce, Jennifer L., 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Affirmative action programs--United States--Public opinion.
- Affirmative action programs.
- White people--United States--Attitudes.
- White people.
- Lawyers--United States--Attitudes.
- Lawyers.
- Women lawyers--United States--Attitudes.
- Women lawyers.
- Racism--United States.
- Racism.
- Mass media and public opinion--United States.
- Mass media and public opinion.
- White people--Race identity--United States.
- Collective memory--United States.
- Collective memory.
- Public opinion--United States.
- Public opinion.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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...
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804783194
- 0804783195
- OCLC:
- 807944315
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