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Critical Race Feminism A Reader

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ISBN-10: 0814793096

ISBN-13: 9780814793091

Edition: 1997

Authors: Adrien Katherine Wing, Derrick A. Bell

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"The organization, subjects, and quality writing make it a book that should have a home on almost any shelf." Altar Magazine "With this volume of 40 essays, Wing . . . seeks to make accesible a theoretical discussion that originated among legal scholars." Library Journal InCritical Race Feminism, Anita Hill, Lani Guinier, Regina Austin, Patricia Williams, Emma Coleman Jordan (Anita Hill's lawyer) and over three dozen other women seek to ensure that their perspectives on race, power, law, and politics in America will never again be distorted or ignored. Revealing how the historical experiences and contemporary realities of women of color are profoundly influenced by a legacy of racism and…    
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Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 3/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 444
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 10.00" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

drien Katherine Wing is Bessie Dutton Murray Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Development at the University of Iowa College of Law.

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory
Ain't I a Feminist?
Brief Reflections toward a Multiplicative Theory and Praxis of Being
Racism, Civil Rights, and Feminism
Obscuring the Importance of Race: The Implication of Making Comparisons between Racism and Sexism (or Other Isms)
It Is Better to Speak
Mascaras, Trenzas, y Grenas: Un/masking the Self While Un/braiding Latina Stories and Legal Discourse
Of Gentleman and Role Models
On Being a Role Model
Tokens, Role Models, and Pedagogical Politics: Lamentations of an African American Female Law Professor
Two Life Stories: Reflections of One Black Woman Law Professor
Law Professors of Color and the Academy: Of Poets and Kings
Meditations on Being Good
On Being a Gorilla in Your Midst, or The Life of One Blackwoman in the Legal Academy
Full Circle
A Tribute to Thurgood Marshall: A Man Who Broke with Tradition on Issues of Race and Gender
Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and the Right of Privacy
Furthering the Inquiry: Race, Class, and Culture in the Forced Medical Treatment of Pregnant Women
Learnfare and Black Motherhood: The Social Construction of Deviance
Spare Parts, Family Values, Old Children, Cheap
A Story from Home: On Being a Black Lesbian Mother
Race, Gender, and Social Class in the Thomas Sexual Harassment Hearings: The Hidden Fault Lines in Political Discourse
The Legacy of Doubt: Treatment of Sex and Race in the Hill-Thomas Hearings
Invisible Woman: Reflections on the Clarence Thomas Confirmation Hearings
Three Perspectives on Workplace Harassment of Women of Color
The Harm That Has No Name: Street Harassment, Embodiment, and African American Women
Converging Stereotypes in Racialized Sexual Harassment: Where the Model Minority Meets Suzie Wong
Spirit-Murdering the Messenger: The Discourse of Fingerpointing as the Law's Response to Racism
Black Women, Sisterhood, and the Difference/Deviance Divide
Sisters in the Hood: Beyond Bloods and Crips
Scarlett's Code, Susan's Actions
Domestic Violence against Latinas by Latino Males: An Analysis of Race, National Origin, and Gender Differentials
Rosa Lopez, Christopher Darden, and Me: Issues of Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in Evaluating Witness Credibility
Orenthal James Simpson and Gender, Class, and Race: In That Order
Sapphire Bound!
A Hair Piece: Perspectives on the Intersection of Race and Gender
Black Women and the Constitution: Finding Our Place, Asserting Our Rights
The Value of Black Mothers' Work
Structures of Subordination: Women of Color at the Intersection of Title VII and the NLRA. Not!
Motherhood and Work in Cultural Context: One Woman's Patriarchal Bargain
Arrogant Perception, World Traveling, and Multicultural Feminism: The Case of Female Genital Surgeries
Between Irua and "Female Genital Mutilation": Feminist Human Rights Discourse and the Cultural Divide
Female Infanticide in China: The Human Rights Specter and Thoughts toward (An)other Vision
Spouse-Based Immigration Laws: The Legacy of Coverture
Black South African Women: Toward Equal Rights
Bibliography
Contributors
Permissions
Index