Toxic Diversity: Race, Gender, and Law Talk in AmericaNYU Press, 2005 M07 1 - 335 páginas Toxic Diversity offers an invigorating view of race, gender, and law in America. Analyzing the work of preeminent legal scholars such as Patricia Williams, Derrick Bell, Lani Guinier, and Richard Delgado, Dan Subotnik argues that race and gender theorists poison our social and intellectual environment by almost deliberately misinterpreting racial interaction and data and turning white males into victimizers. Far from energizing women and minorities, Subotnik concludes, theorists divert their energies from implementing America's social justice agenda. |
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... problem? The school could send the academic work of its women and minority faculty for a fair review to outsiders, themselves (tenured) women and minorities. Or the untenured representatives could have participated in the appropriate ...
... problem for Americans: if we were vulnerable in the ivory tower just steps from Harvard Yard, were we and our loved ones safe anywhere? The crime, which has never been solved, raised other painful questions. Was Frug victimized for ...
... elicited an especially large amount of feminist commentary, the third because it is arguably tied to a fundamental social problem. Chapter 7 evaluates the feminist claim that law schools oppress women students, and chapter 8.
... thinker who is basically an empiricist,” he insists, “has to have some truth in his position, no matter how extremely he has formulated it. The [reader's] problem is to find the truth underneath the Smelling the Sewers but Not the Flowers.
... problem is to find the truth underneath the exaggeration, to cut away the excess elaboration or distortion.”1 What about those who write about gender and race? Are they—we—“honest” thinkers who are entitled in Becker's system to the ...
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The Vagina Monologues | |
Black and Blue | |
Crime Stories | |
Eyes on the Prize | |
Final Exam | |
Bibliography | |
Name Index | |
Subject Index | |