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Toxic diversity : race, gender, and law talk in America / Dan Subotnik.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Subotnik, Dan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race discrimination--Law and legislation--United States.
- Race discrimination.
- Sex and law--United States.
- Sex and law.
- Critical legal studies--United States.
- Critical legal studies.
- United States--Race relations--Philosophy.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Universitry Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-322) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0-8147-8659-6
- 1-4294-1418-9
- OCLC:
- 779828359
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