Racing for Innocence : Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action.
Material type: TextPublication details: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (248 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780804783194
- 0804783195
- Affirmative action programs -- United States -- Public opinion
- White people -- United States -- Attitudes
- Lawyers -- United States -- Attitudes
- Women lawyers -- United States -- Attitudes
- Racism -- United States
- Mass media and public opinion -- United States
- White people -- Race identity -- United States
- Collective memory -- United States
- Public opinion -- United States
- United States -- Race relations
- Programmes d'action positive -- États-Unis -- Opinion publique
- Avocats -- États-Unis -- Attitudes
- Avocates -- États-Unis -- Attitudes
- Racisme -- États-Unis
- Médias et opinion publique -- États-Unis
- Mémoire collective -- États-Unis
- Opinion publique -- États-Unis
- États-Unis -- Relations raciales
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations
- Affirmative action programs -- Public opinion
- Collective memory
- Lawyers -- Attitudes
- Mass media and public opinion
- Public opinion
- Race relations
- Racism
- White people -- Attitudes
- White people -- Race identity
- United States
- 331.13/30973 331.1330973
- HF5549.5.A34P54 2012
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& DIV & How is it that recipients of white privilege deny the role they play in reproducing racial inequality? & I & Racing for Innocence & /I & addresses this question by examining the backlash against affirmative action in the late 1980s and early 1990s-just as courts, universities, and other institutions began to end affirmative action programs. & BR & & BR & 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 mos.
Acknowledgments; Introduction: Telling Stories About Race in an Era of Colorblindness; 1. Innocence and Injury: The Politics of Cultural Memoryin Print News Media; 2. Filming Racial Progress: The Transformation of White Male Innocence; 3. Racing for Innocence: Stories of Disavowal and Exclusion; 4. Stand by Your Man: Women Lawyers and Affirmative Action; 5. Small Talk: A Short Story; Commentary: Ambivalent Racism; Conclusion: Still Racing for Innocence; Appendix A: Reflections on Methodology; Appendix B: Hollywood Films; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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