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Critical race narratives : a study of race, rhetoric, and injury / Carl Gutiérrez-Jones

New York : New York University Press, c2001 [©2001]

Online-Ressource (x, 214 p) ; 24 cm

Englisch

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

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-205) and index

Print version: Critical Race Narratives : A Study of Race, Rhetoric and Injury

0-8147-3145-7 ; 0-8147-3144-9

978-0-8147-3144-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 704483027     

Online-Ausg.

2009

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

E184.A1

305.8/00973     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: United States -- Race relations ; Hate speech -- United States ; United States -- Race relations -- Historiography ; Minorities -- United States -- Social conditions -- Historiography ; Racism -- United States -- Historiography ; Racism -- United States ; Minorities -- United States -- Social conditions ; Narration (Rhetoric) ; Discourse analysis, Narrative ; Racism-United States-Historiography ; Minorities-United States-Social conditions-Historiography ; Racism-United States ; Minorities-United States-Social conditions ; Hate speech-United States ; United States-Race relations ; United States-Race relations-Historiography

Discourse analysis, Narrative ; Electronic books

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