Critical race narratives : a study of race, rhetoric, and injury / / Carl Gutiérrez-Jones.

• Superior document: Critical America
• Author: Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl Scott.
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Critical America.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The beating of Rodney King, the killing of Amadou Diallo, and the LAPD Rampart Scandal: these events have been interpreted by the courts, the media and the public in dramatically conflicting ways. Critical Race Narratives examines what is at stake in these conflicts and, in so doing, rethinks racial strife in the United States as a highly-charged struggle over different methods of reading and writing. Focusing in particular on the practice and theorization of narrative strategies, Gutiérrez-Jones engages many of the most influential texts in the recent race debates including The Bell Curve, Am

Table of Contents

The contours of the contemporary race debate -- Color-blindness, acting out, and culture -- Critical race stories and the problem of remedy -- Historical properties, uncommon grounds -- The sociology of racialized crime -- Genetic liabilities and the paradox of altruism.