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Race-ing justice, en-gendering power : essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the construction of social reality /

"In Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power, Toni Morrison contributes an introduction and brings together eighteen provocative essays, all but one written especially for this book, by prominent and distinguished academicians--black and white, male and female. These writings powerfully elucidate n...

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Contributors: Morrison, Toni.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1992.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects and Genres:
Thomas, Clarence, > 1948-.
Hill, Anita.
Thomas, Clarence, > 1948-
Hill, Anita, > 1954-
Judges > Selection and appointment > United States.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Racism against Black people > United States.
Sexism > United States.
Sexual harassment of women > United States.
African Americans.
Prejudices.
Politics, Practical.
Sexual Harassment > ethnology
Black or African American.
Prejudice
Race Relations
Politics
Noirs américains > Conditions sociales.
Sexisme > États-Unis.
Noirs américains.
Préjugés.
Politique.
African American.
politics.
71.62 ethnic relations (sociology)
Sexual harassment of women.
Judges > Selection and appointment.
Racism against Black people.
Sexism.
Rassendiscriminatie.
Seksisme.
Racism > United States.
United States
United States.
African Americans > Social conditions
Geschichte > 1990-
Hill, Anita
Judges > Selection and appointment > United States
Racism > United States
Sexism > United States
Thomas, Clarence
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Table of Contents:
  • An open letter to Justice Clarence Thomas from a federal judicial colleague / A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
  • The private parts of justice / Andrew Ross
  • Clarence Thomas and the crisis of black political culture / Manning Marable
  • False, fleeting, perjured Clarence : Yale's brightest and blackest go to Washington / Michael Thelwell
  • Doing things with words : "racism" as speech act and the undoing of justice / Claudia Brodsky Lacour
  • A rare case study of muleheadedness and men / Patricia J. Williams
  • A sentimental journey : James Baldwin and the Thomas-Hill hearings / Gayle Pemberton
  • Hill, Thomas, and the use of racial stereotype / Nell Irvin Painter
  • Double standard, double bind : African-American leadership after the Thomas debacle / Carol M. Swain.
  • A good judge of character : men, metaphors, and the common culture / Homi K. Bhabha
  • White feminists and black realities : the politics of authenticity / Christine Stansell
  • Remembering Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas : what really happened when one black woman spoke out / Nellie Y. McKay
  • The Supreme Court appointment process and the politics of race and sex / Margaret A. Burnham
  • Black ladies, welfare queens, and state minstrels : ideological war by narrative means / Wahneema Lubiano
  • Strange fruit / Kendall Thomas
  • Black leadership and the pitfalls of racial reasoning / Cornel West
  • Whose story is it, anyway? Feminist and antiracist appropriations of Anita Hill / Kimberlé Crenshaw
  • The last taboo / Paula Giddings.

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