Toxic Diversity: Race, Gender, and Law Talk in AmericaNYU Press, 2005 - 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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... else. I, at least, was used to racial grandstanding. Rather, it was the realization that a white man—at least on a law faculty—would never be allowed to draw such a conclusion about black women, much less promote it xii | Preface.
... racial understandings with skepticism and “barefoot irreverence” would likely amount only to propaganda or therapy. All for naught. My former dean, who is white and female, somehow believed she knew what students needed to hear and ...
... racial lines. Another exchange during that trial may be equally revealing. After Cochran had argued for the importance of allowing testimony of Detective Mark Fuhrman's habits of speech, prosecutor Chris Darden objected, claiming that ...
... racial profiling was improper as a matter of etiquette. A comment that a person “sounds black” should be no more offensive than a comment that he sounds Californian or French. Especially so, given that Darden was himself black, that ...
... racial violence: “Yes, he [Harrari] was a white interloper. What they are trying to do is act like we can't say anything wrong about an individual white. Otherwise, that's racist. That's baloney.”31 14 | Learning to Think about Race and ...
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The Unbearable Burden of Being Black | 87 |
Pink and Blue | 110 |
Chicken Little Goes to Law School | 130 |
The Tall Tales of Women Teachers | 147 |
Conclusion Eyes on the Prize | 245 |
Final Exam | 261 |
Student Faculty Evaluation | 264 |
Student Questionnaire | 267 |
Christine Farleys Study | 269 |
Notes | 270 |
Bibliography | 304 |
Name Index | 324 |
Unwed Motherhood and Apple Pie | 166 |
A Casino Society | 186 |
Crime Stories | 213 |
Subject Index | 332 |
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