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Race-ing justice, en-gendering power : essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the construction of social reality / edited and with an introduction by Toni Morrison.
- Title
- Race-ing justice, en-gendering power : essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the construction of social reality / edited and with an introduction by Toni Morrison.
- Publication
- New York : Pantheon Books, c1992.
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- Additional Authors
- Morrison, Toni
- Description
- xxx, 475 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "In Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power, Toni Morrison contributes an introduction and brings together eighteen provocative essays, all but one written especially for this book, by prominent and distinguished academicians--black and white, male and female. These writings powerfully elucidate not only the racial and sexual but also the historical, political, cultural, legal, psychological, and linguistic aspects of a signal and revelatory moment in American history"--Publisher's description
- Alternative Title
- Racing justice, engendering power.
- Subject
- Thomas, Clarence, 1948-
- Hill, Anita
- United States. Supreme Court > Officials and employees > Selection and appointment
- Judges > Selection and appointment > United States
- African Americans > Social conditions
- Racism > United States
- Sexism > United States
- Sexual Harassment > ethnology > United States
- Black or African American
- Prejudice > United States
- Race Relations > United States
- Politics > United States
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : Friday on the Potomac / Toni Morrison -- An open letter to Justice Clarence Thomas from a federal judicial colleague / A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. -- The private parts of justice / Andrew Ross -- Clarence Thomas and the crisis of black political culture / Manning Marable -- False, fleeting, perjured Clarence : Yale's brightest and blackest go to Washington / Michael Thelwell -- Doing things with words : "racism" as speech act and the undoing of justice / Claudia Brodsky Lacour -- A rare case study of muleheadedness and men / Patricia J. Williams -- A sentimental journey : James Baldwin and the Thomas-Hill hearings / Gayle Pemberton -- Hill, Thomas, and the use of racial stereotype / Nell Irvin Painter -- Double standard, double bind : African-American leadership after the Thomas debacle / Carol M. Swain -- A good judge of character : men, metaphors, and the common culture / Homi K. Bhabha -- White feminists and black realities : the politics of authenticity / Christine Stansell -- Remembering Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas : what really happened when one black woman spoke out / Nellie Y. McKay -- The Supreme Court appointment process and the politics of race and sex / Margaret A. Burnham -- Black ladies, welfare queens, and state minstrels : ideological war by narrative means / Wahneema Lubiano -- Strange fruit / Kendall Thomas --
- (cont.) Black leadership and the pitfalls of racial reasoning / Cornel West -- Whose story is it, anyway? : Feminist and antiracist appropriations of Anita Hill / Kimberle Crenshaw -- The last taboo / Paula Giddings.
- ISBN
- 0679741453 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^92054119^
- OCLC
- 25632335
- SCSB-10375314
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library