Devon W. Carbado (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, University of, Mitu Gulati (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, Duke University)

Acting White?

Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America

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Produktbeschreibung

In Acting White, two of America's leading scholars of race and the law, Devon Carbado and Mitu Gulati, argue that that racial judgments are based not just on phenotypic skin color differences but on performative differences-how a person conforms to behavior stereotypically associated with a certain race.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780190229214
• ISBN-10: 0190229217
• Artikelnr.: 47863783

Autorenporträt

Devon Carbado is Professor of Law at University of California, Los Angeles. Mitu Gulati is Professor of Law at Duke University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Acting White, Acting Black, and Doing A Lot of Work
1. Why Act White?
2. Talking White
3. Acting Like a Black Woman
4. Acting Like a White Woman
5. (Not) Acting Criminal
6. Acting Diverse
7. Acting Within the Law
8. Acting White to Help Other Blacks
Conclusion: Judging the Acting