TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pierce,Jennifer
TI  - Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action
SN  - 9780804783194
AV  - HF5549.5.A34P54 2012 
U1  - 331.13/30973331.1330973 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Palo Alto
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Affirmative action programs
KW  - United States
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - White people
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - Lawyers
KW  - Women lawyers
KW  - Racism
KW  - Mass media and public opinion
KW  - Race identity
KW  - Collective memory
KW  - Programmes d'action positive
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Opinion publique
KW  - Avocats
KW  - Avocates
KW  - Racisme
KW  - Médias et opinion publique
KW  - Mémoire collective
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Labor
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Labor & Industrial Relations
KW  - fast
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Relations raciales
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - & 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
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