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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... victim's struggle for self-identity in response to racism.”19 The notion that feeling predominates over thinking feeds into destructive stereotypes of women and minorities, to wit, that they subordinate reason to emotions.20 If self ...
... . Whites, says Michael Dyson, “may believe that their opinions and judgments are as fully informed and cogent as those of victims of racism. In this circumstance something approximating Smelling the Sewers but Not the Flowers | 29.
Race, Gender, and Law Talk in America Dan Subotnik. those of victims of racism. In this circumstance something approximating a lack of standing to speak exists because the insight gained by personal experience cannot be duplicated ...
... hooks has to say: “We must challenge the simplistic notion that man is the enemy, woman the victim. We all have the capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate, wound.” It is important to keep Smelling the Sewers but Not the Flowers | ...
... victims,” he concludes, “earnest liberals for the most part could no more crawl out from under my accusation than Joseph K. in Kafka's Trial.”86 Black culture critic Stanley Crouch tells of a related game. The test for success used to ...
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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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