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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... teach the best and the brightest how to do so. Because the Harvard materials are not available to the rest of us, two tacks are used here. First, a carefully balanced defense to charges against white males is employed. The thought is ...
... teaching in 1998, when he wrote those words, than in 1988, which represents an increase from 4.8 percent to 7.8 percent of total law faculty.30 Since African Americans represent 5.1 percent of lawyers, it seems fair to conclude that ...
... Teacher's College professor of psychology Derald Wing Sue, that people of color have a “clarity of vision and truth ... teach (which is their historical and customary position),” he says, “real and meaningful conversations cannot happen ...
... teach. The prophet is normally celebrated not for subtlety of analysis but for clarity. The prophet says, “Give to the poor,” but does not add, “Be careful not to create dependency.” It should not be surprising, then, that black ...
... teach nonsense,” says Harvard Law's Duncan Kennedy, when they “seek to persuade students that legal reasoning is distinct, as a method of reaching correct results, from ethical and political discourse in general.”71 And ethics 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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