Race-ing justice, en-gendering power : essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the construction of social reality /

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Other Authors: Morrison, Toni
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1992
Edition:1st ed
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Black leadership and the pitfalls of racial reasoning / Cornel West
  • Whose story is it, anyway? Feminist and antiracist appropriations of Anita Hill / Kimberlé Crenshaw
  • The last taboo / Paula Giddings