The American Dream in Black and White : : The Clarence Thomas Hearings /

The American Dream in Black and White : : The Clarence Thomas Hearings / / Jane Flax.

"This is not. the nomination of a justice of the peace to some small county in some small state. This involves the very integrity and fabric of our country."—Senator Orrin G. HatchThe transcripts of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Clarence Thomas are extraordinarily rich and sug...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Flax, Jane,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1999
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION. American Dilemmas and the American Dream
  • CHAPTER ONE. American Dream or Nightmare? Horatio Alger and Race(d) Men
  • CHAPTER TWO. The Male/Africanist Presence: Senatorial Representations
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Female/Africanist Presence: Male Bonding in Contemporary American Politics
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Whose Hearing? Sexual Harassment and the Female Tease
  • CHAPTER FIVE. The Horror of Blackness: Sleaze, Dirt, and Female Traitors
  • CHAPTER SIX. "At Least McCarthy Was Elected": Fraternal Reconciliation
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. "This Is All Shakespeare": Doggett and the Transformation of Tragedy into Farce
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Why Race/Gender Domination Persists: The Necessary Failures of Abstract Individualism and Identity Politics
  • Bibliography
  • Notes
  • Index

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