Acting white? : rethinking race in "post-racial" America / Devon W. Carbado and Mitu Gulati.

By:

Carbado, Devon W

Contributor(s):

Gulati, Mitu

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780199700066
0199700060

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Acting white?DDC classification:

340.089/96073 23

LOC classification:

KF384 .C37 2013eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-192) and index.

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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.

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