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1 online resource (352 pages) |
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Preface; Part I: The Signifying Monkey; 1. Learning to Think about Race and Gender; 2. Smelling the Sewers but Not the Flowers; 3. The Critical Race Theory Show; 4. Race, Gender, Jokes, Thinking, and Feeling; 5. The Unbearable Burden of Being Black; 6. Pink and Blue; Part II: The Vagina Monologues; 7. Chicken Little Goes to Law School; 8. The Tall Tales of Women Teachers; 9. Unwed Motherhood and Apple Pie; Part III: Black and Blue; 10. A Casino Society; 11. Crime Stories; 12. Conclusion; Afterword; Appendix I; Appendix II; Appendix III; Notes; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
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. Insisting, in the words of James Baldwin, t |
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About the Author |
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| Subject |
Critical legal studies -- United States
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Sex and law -- United States
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Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States
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Critical legal studies.
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Race discrimination -- Law and legislation.
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Race relations -- Philosophy.
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Sex and law.
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United States -- Race relations -- Philosophy
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814786598 |
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0814786596 |
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