| Description |
1 online resource (224 pages) |
| Series |
Critical America Series |
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Critical America.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction; part one: Working through Racial Injury; 1. The Contours of the Contemporary Race Debate; 2. Color-Blindness, Acting Out, and Culture; part two: Narrative Interventions; 3. Critical Race Stories and the Problem of Remedy; 4. Historical Properties, Uncommon Grounds; 5. The Sociology of Racialized Crime; 6. Genetic Liabilities and the Paradox of Altruism; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
The beating of Rodney King, the killing of Amadou Diallo, and the LAPD Rampart Scandal: these events have been interpreted by the courts, the media and the public in dramatically conflicting ways. Critical Race Narratives examines what is at stake in these conflicts and, in so doing, rethinks racial strife in the United States as a highly-charged struggle over different methods of reading and writing. Focusing in particular on the practice and theorization of narrative strategies, Gutiérrez-Jones engages many of the most influential texts in the recent race debates including The Bell Curve, Am |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hate speech -- United States
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Discourse analysis, Narrative.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Minorities -- United States -- Social conditions -- Historiography
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Racism -- United States -- Historiography
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Minorities -- United States -- Social conditions
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Racism -- United States
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Discourse analysis, Narrative
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Hate speech
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Minorities -- Social conditions
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Race relations
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Race relations -- Historiography
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Racism
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Racism -- Historiography
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Race relations -- Historiography
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United States -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814733332 |
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0814733336 |
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