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9%OFFJennifer Pierce - Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action - 9780804778794 - V9780804778794
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Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action

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Description for Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action Paperback. Investigates the roles of popular culture and white professional elite men in constructing and facilitating the backlash against affirmative action policies. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 865. Weight in Grams: 363.

How is it that recipients of white privilege deny the role they play in reproducing racial inequality? Racing for Innocence 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.

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 most white men denied accountability for any racism in the workplace, they ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804778794
SKU
V9780804778794
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About Jennifer Pierce
Jennifer L. Pierce is Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is coauthor of Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and in History (2008) and author of Gender Trials: Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms (1995).

Reviews for Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action
"In sum, Racing for Innocence is an important addition to the literature on race, gender, and equal opportunity and expands our knowledge as we contemplate the roots of the backlash against affirmative action."
David Hamilton Golland
Journal of American Ethnic History
"A major contribution to our sociological understanding of the backlash against affirmative action. I know of ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action


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