Title
Critical Race Narratives : A Study of Race, Rhetoric and Injury / Carl Gutierrez-Jones.
ISBN
9780814733332
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2001]
Copyright
©2001
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.18574/nyu/9780814733332.001.0001 doi
Call Number
E184.A1
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.8/00973
Summary
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 debatesincluding The Bell Curve, America in Black and White, The Alchemy of Race and Rights, and The Mismeasure of Man. In the process, Critical Race Narratives pursues key questions posed by the texts as they work within, or against, disciplinary expectations: can critical engagements with narrative enable a more democratic dialogue regarding race? what promise does such experimentation hold for working through the traumatic legacy of racism in the United States? Throughout, Critical Race Narratives initiates a timely dialogue between race-focused narrative experiment in scholarly writing and similar work in literary texts and popular culture.
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Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
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Series
Critical America ; ; 42
Available in Other Form
print 9780814731444
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
part one: Working through Racial Injury
chapter one The Contours of the Contemporary Race Debate
chapter two Color-Blindness, Acting Out, and Culture
part two: Narrative Interventions
chapter three Critical Race Stories and the Problem of Remedy
chapter four Historical Properties, Uncommon Grounds
chapter five The Sociology of Racialized Crime
chapter six Genetic Liabilities and the Paradox of Altruism
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Author
