Title Racing for Innocence : Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action.

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Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2012.

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Summary	& DIV & How is it that recipients of white privilege deny the role they play in reproducing racial inequality? & I & Racing for Innocence & /I & addresses this question by examining the backlash against affirmative action in the late 1980s and early 1990s-just as courts, universities, and other institutions began to end affirmative action programs. & BR & & BR & This book recounts the stories of elite legal professionals at a large corporation with a federally mandated affirmative action program, as well as the cultural narratives about race, gender, and power in the news media and Hollywood films. Though mos.
Contents	Acknowledgments; Introduction: Telling Stories About Race in an Era ofColorblindness; 1. Innocence and Injury: The Politics of Cultural Memoryin Print News Media; 2. Filming Racial Progress: The Transformation ofWhite Male Innocence; 3. Racing for Innocence: Stories of Disavowal and Exclusion; 4. Stand by Your Man: Women Lawyers and Affirmative Action; 5. Small Talk: A Short Story; Commentary: Ambivalent Racism; Conclusion: Still Racing for Innocence; Appendix A: Reflections on Methodology; Appendix B: Hollywood Films; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject	Affirmative action programs -- United States -- Public opinion.
	Affirmative action programs.
	United States.
	Public opinion.
	White people -- United States -- Attitudes.
	White people.
	Lawyers -- United States -- Attitudes.
	Lawyers.
	Women lawyers -- United States -- Attitudes.
	Women lawyers.
	Racism -- United States.
	Racism.
	Mass media and public opinion -- United States.
	Mass media and public opinion.
	White people -- Race identity -- United States.
	White people -- Race identity.
	Collective memory -- United States.
	Collective memory.
	Public opinion -- United States.
	United States -- Race relations.
	Race relations.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Subject	Racism.
Other Form:	Print version: 9780804778787
ISBN	9780804783194
	0804783195
	9780804778787 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	0804778787 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	9780804778794 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	0804778795 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

Title Racing for Innocence : Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action.

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