Toxic Diversity : : Race, Gender, and Law Talk in America / / Dan Subotnik.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Subotnik, Dan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Toxic Diversity offers an invigorating view of race, gender, and law in America. Analyzing the work of preeminent legal scholars such as Patricia Williams, Derrick Bell, Lani Guinier, and Richard Delgado, Dan Subotnik argues that race and gender theorists poison our social and intellectual environment by almost deliberately misinterpreting racial interaction and data and turning white males into victimizers. Far from energizing women and minorities, Subotnik concludes, theorists divert their energies from implementing America's social justice agenda.Insisting, in the words of James Baldwin, that “not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced,” and that thoughtful Americans regardless of race and gender can handle frank conversations about difficult topics, Subotnik’s critique of race and gender theory pulls no punches as it confronts such inflammatory issues as single parenthood, the merit system in academic and business settings, gender privilege in the classroom, and crime.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Doubt Everything -- Part I The Signifying Monkey -- 1 Learning to Think about Race and Gender -- 2 Smelling the Sewers but Not the Flowers -- 3 The Critical Race Theory Show -- 4 Race, Gender, Jokes, Thinking, and Feeling -- 5 The Unbearable Burden of Being Black -- 6 Pink and Blue -- Part II The Vagina Monologues -- 7 Chicken Little Goes to Law School -- 8 The Tall Tales of Women Teachers -- 9 Unwed Motherhood and Apple Pie -- Part III Black and Blue -- 10 A Casino Society -- 11 Crime Stories -- 12 Conclusion: Eyes on the Prize -- Afterword: Final Exam -- Appendix I Student Faculty Evaluation -- Appendix II Student Questionnaire -- Appendix III Christine Farley’s Study -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- About the Author