{"product_id":"racing-for-innocence-whiteness-gender-and-the-backlash-against-affirmative-action-9780804778794","title":"Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action","description":"How is it that recipients of white privilege deny the role they play in reproducing racial inequality? \u003ci\u003eRacing for Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e 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. 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 most white men denied accountability for any racism in the workplace, they recounted ways in which they resisted--whether wittingly or not-- incorporating people of color or white women into their workplace lives. Drawing on three different approaches--ethnography, narrative analysis, and fiction--to conceptualize the complexities and ambiguities of race and gender in contemporary America, this book makes an innovative pedagogical tool.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Pierce\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804778794\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJennifer L. Pierce is Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is coauthor of \u003ci\u003eTelling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and in History\u003c\/i\u003e (2008) and author of \u003ci\u003eGender Trials: Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms\u003c\/i\u003e (1995).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40759754227827,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":33.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_0f61b25f-4ead-4b16-b848-a36895027173.jpg?v=1678974002","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/racing-for-innocence-whiteness-gender-and-the-backlash-against-affirmative-action-9780804778794","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}