Acting White? - Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America

Zusatztext Law students will like Acting White because it is an easy read and it can help those who need to know how to navigate law firms when identity issues come up. Readers wanting to know how to create a working identity they can live with and not feel as though they are selling out can refer to the authors' discussion of four stages of racial negotiation. This book has much to offer and is a must for any library. Informationen zum Autor Devon Carbado is Professor of Law at University of California, Los Angeles. Mitu Gulati is Professor of Law at Duke University. Klappentext What does it mean to "act black" or "act white"? Is race merely a matter of phenotype, or does it come from the inflection of a person's speech, the clothes in her closet, how she chooses to spend her time and with whom she chooses to spend it? What does it mean to be "really" black, and who gets to make that judgment? Zusammenfassung In Acting White, two of America's leading scholars of race and the law, Devon Carbado and Mitu Gulati, argue that that racial judgments are based not just on phenotypic skin color differences but on performative differences-how a person conforms to behavior stereotypically associated with a certain race. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Acting White, Acting Black, and Doing A Lot of Work 1. Why Act White? 2. Talking White 3. Acting Like a Black Woman 4. Acting Like a White Woman 5. (Not) Acting Criminal 6. Acting Diverse 7. Acting Within the Law 8. Acting White to Help Other Blacks Conclusion: Judging the Acting

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• Authors: Devon W Carbado, Devon W. Carbado, Devon W. (Professor of Law Carbado, Carbado Devon W., Mitu Gulati, Mitu (Professor of Law Gulati, Gulati Mitu
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.05.2015
• EAN: 9780190229214
• ISBN: 978-0-19-022921-4
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; USA, Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / Civil Rights, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity