Format:
1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
ISBN:
9780814733332
,
0814733336
Series Statement:
Critical America Series
Content:
The beating of Rodney King, the killing of Amadou Diallo, and the LAPD Rampart Scandal: these events have been interpreted by the courts, the media and the public in dramatically conflicting ways. Critical Race Narratives examines what is at stake in these conflicts and, in so doing, rethinks racial strife in the United States as a highly-charged struggle over different methods of reading and writing. Focusing in particular on the practice and theorization of narrative strategies, Gutiérrez-Jones engages many of the most influential texts in the recent race debates including The Bell Curve, Am
Note:
Acknowledgments; Introduction; part one: Working through Racial Injury; 1. The Contours of the Contemporary Race Debate; 2. Color-Blindness, Acting Out, and Culture; part two: Narrative Interventions; 3. Critical Race Stories and the Problem of Remedy; 4. Historical Properties, Uncommon Grounds; 5. The Sociology of Racialized Crime; 6. Genetic Liabilities and the Paradox of Altruism; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Author.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814731444
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gutierrez-Jones, Carl Critical Race Narratives : A Study of Race, Rhetoric and Injury New York : NYU Press, ©2001 ISBN 9780814731444
Language:
English