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Race-ing justice, en-gendering power : essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the construction of social reality / edited and with an introduction by Toni Morrison.

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Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks KF8745.T48 R33 1992
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Thomas, Clarence, 1948-.
Thomas, Clarence.
Hill, Anita.
Judges--Selection and appointment--United States.
Judges.
African Americans--Social conditions.
African Americans.
Racism against Black people--United States.
Racism against Black people.
Sexism--United States.
Sexism.
Sexual harassment of women--United States.
Sexual harassment of women.
Prejudices.
Politics, Practical.
Sexual Harassment--ethnology.
Black or African American.
Prejudice.
Race Relations.
Politics.
United States.
african american.
politics.
Judges--Selection and appointment.
Racism--United States.
Medical Subjects:
Sexual Harassment--ethnology.
Black or African American.
Prejudice.
Race Relations.
Politics.
United States.
Physical Description:
xxx, 475 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition:
1st ed.
Other Title:
Racing justice, engendering power.
Place of Publication:
New York : Pantheon Books, 1992.
Summary:
"In Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power, Toni Morrison contributes an introduction and brings together eighteen provocative essays, all but one written especially for this book, by prominent and distinguished academicians--black and white, male and female. These writings powerfully elucidate not only the racial and sexual but also the historical, political, cultural, legal, psychological, and linguistic aspects of a signal and revelatory moment in American history"--Publisher's description
Contents:
An open letter to Justice Clarence Thomas from a federal judicial colleague / A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
The private parts of justice / Andrew Ross
Clarence Thomas and the crisis of black political culture / Manning Marable
False, fleeting, perjured Clarence : Yale's brightest and blackest go to Washington / Michael Thelwell
Doing things with words : "racism" as speech act and the undoing of justice / Claudia Brodsky Lacour
A rare case study of muleheadedness and men / Patricia J. Williams
A sentimental journey : James Baldwin and the Thomas-Hill hearings / Gayle Pemberton
Hill, Thomas, and the use of racial stereotype / Nell Irvin Painter
Double standard, double bind : African-American leadership after the Thomas debacle / Carol M. Swain.
A good judge of character : men, metaphors, and the common culture / Homi K. Bhabha
White feminists and black realities : the politics of authenticity / Christine Stansell
Remembering Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas : what really happened when one black woman spoke out / Nellie Y. McKay
The Supreme Court appointment process and the politics of race and sex / Margaret A. Burnham
Black ladies, welfare queens, and state minstrels : ideological war by narrative means / Wahneema Lubiano
Strange fruit / Kendall Thomas
Black leadership and the pitfalls of racial reasoning / Cornel West
Whose story is it, anyway? Feminist and antiracist appropriations of Anita Hill / Kimberlé Crenshaw
The last taboo / Paula Giddings.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Notes:
The Balch Institute Library and Archives.
Other Format:
Online version: Race-ing justice, en-gendering power.
ISBN:
0679741453
9780679741459
OCLC:
25632335

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