TY - BOOK AU - Carbado,Devon W. AU - Gulati,Mitu TI - Acting white?: rethinking race in "post-racial" America SN - 9780199700066 AV - KF384 .C37 2013eb U1 - 340.089/96073 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Oxford, New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - Discrimination in justice administration KW - United States KW - Justice, Administration of KW - Social aspects KW - Discrimination in employment KW - Racism KW - Stereotypes (Social psychology) KW - Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice KW - États-Unis KW - Racisme KW - Stéréotypes KW - LAW KW - Essays KW - bisacsh KW - General Practice KW - Jurisprudence KW - Paralegals & Paralegalism KW - Practical Guides KW - Reference KW - fast KW - Stereotype (Social psychology) KW - sears KW - Administration of justice KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-192) and index; Prologue : acting out the racial double bind -- Why act white? -- Talking white -- Acting like a black woman? -- Acting like a (white) woman? -- (not) acting criminal -- Acting diverse -- Acting within the law -- Acting white to help other blacks -- Epilogue : acting beyond black and white N2 - In Acting White, two of America's leading scholars of race and the law, Devon Carbado and Mitu Gulati, argue that that racial judgments are based not just on phenotypic skin color differences but on performative differences-how a person conforms to behavior stereotypically associated with a certain race. In other words, we judge people based not only on the color of their skin but on the content of their identity performance. More specifically, we judge them on their racial performance: how they dress and style their hair, their institutional affiliations, who they date and/or marry, where the UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=593147 ER -