Format:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 333 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0814740006
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-322) and indexes
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Contents; Preface; Part I: The Signifying Monkey; 1. Learning to Think about Race and Gender; 2. Smelling the Sewers but Not the Flowers; 3. The Critical Race Theory Show; 4. Race, Gender, Jokes, Thinking, and Feeling; 5. The Unbearable Burden of Being Black; 6. Pink and Blue; Part II: The Vagina Monologues; 7. Chicken Little Goes to Law School; 8. The Tall Tales of Women Teachers; 9. Unwed Motherhood and Apple Pie; Part III: Black and Blue; 10. A Casino Society; 11. Crime Stories; 12. Conclusion; Afterword; Appendix I; Appendix II; Appendix III; Notes; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index
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About the Author
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814740002
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Toxic Diversity : Race, Gender, and Law Talk in America
Language:
English
