Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power
By Toni Morrison
By Toni Morrison
Category: Essays & Literary Collections
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$24.00
Oct 06, 1992 | ISBN 9780679741459
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Praise
As Morrison (Jazz) writes in her pointed opening essay, the Thomas controversy last year both raised and buried issues of profound national significance. This collection . . . powerfully advances the debate . . . cordially but relentlessly lays out the legal history of the civil rights movement . . . describes the crisis in the response by black organizations, skillfully skewers the neoaccommodationist support of Thomas among black liberals . . . exemplifies James Baldwin’s observation that white Americans don’t know how to deal with a black who falls outside of their expectations. . . shows an example of how even militant feminists can be snookered when the issue is racial identity.
—Publisher’s Weekly
Table Of Contents
Introduction: Friday on the Potomac vii
Toni Morrison
An Open Letter to Justice Clarence Thomas from a Federal Judicial Colleague 3
A. Leon Higginbotham. Jr.
The Private Parts of Justice 40
Andrew Ross
Clarence Thomas and the Crisis of Black Political Culture 61
Manning Marable
False, Fleeting, Perjured Clarence: Yale’s Brightest and Blackest Go to Washington 86
Michael Thelwell
Doing Things with Words: “Racism” as Speech Act and the Undoing of Justice 127
Claudia Brodsky Lacour
A Rare Case Study of Muleheadedness and Men 159
Patricia J. Williams
A Sentimental Journey: James Baldwin and the Thomas-Hill Hearings 172
Gayle Pemberton
Hill, Thomas, and the Use of Racial Stereotype 200
Nell Irvin Painter
Double Standard, Double Blind: African-American Leadership After the Thomas Debacle 215
Carol M. Swain
A Good Judge of Character: Men, Metaphors, and the Common Culture 232
Homi K. Bhabha
White Feminisms and Black Realities: The Politics of Authenticity 251
Christine Stansell
Remembering Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas: What Really Happened When One Black Woman Spoke Out 269
Nellie Y. McKay
The Supreme Court Appointment Process and the Politics of Race and Sex 290
Margaret A. Burnham
Black Ladies, Welfare Queens, and State Minstrels: Ideological War by Narrative Means 323
Wahneema Lubiano
Strange Fruit 364
Kendall Thomas
Black Leadership and the Pitfalls of Racial Reasoning 390
Cornel West
Whose Story Is It, Anyway? Feminist and Antiracist Appropriation of Anita Hill 402
Kimberlé Crenshaw
The Last Taboo 441
Paula Giddings
About the Contributors 471
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