Looking White People in the Eye : : Gender, Race, and Culture in Courtrooms and Classrooms / / Sherene Razack.

In this book Sherene Razack explores what happens when whites look at non-whites, and in particular at non-white women. Most studies examining this encounter between dominant and subordinate groups focus on how it occurs in films, books, and popular culture. In contrast, Razack addresses how non-whi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]
©1998
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Looking White People in the Eye
  • 1 The Cold Game of Equality Staring'
  • 2 The Gaze from the Other Side: Storytelling for Social Change
  • 3 What Is to Be Gained by Looking White People in the Eye? Race in Sexual Violence Cases
  • 4 Policing the Borders of Nation: The Imperial Gaze in Gender Persecution Cases
  • 5 From Pity to Respect: The Ableist Gaze and the Politics of Rescue
  • 6 Conclusion: To Essentialize or Not to Essentialize: Is This the Question?
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Permissions
  • Index