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Download ! Acting White?: Rethinking Race in "Post-Racial" America PDF by * Devon W. Carbado, Mitu Gulati eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Acting White?: Rethinking Race in "Post-Racial" America What does it mean to "act black" or "act white"? Is race merely a matter of phenotype, or does it come from the inflection of a person's speech, the clothes in her closet, how she chooses to spend her time and with whom she chooses to spend it? What does it mean to be "really" black, and who gets to make that judgment?In Acting White?, leading scholars of race and the law Devon Carbado and Mitu Gulati argue that, in spite of decades of racial progress and the pervasiveness of multicultural rheto
| Title | : | Acting White?: Rethinking Race in "Post-Racial" America |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.57 (966 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0190229217 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 212 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-18 |
| Language | : | English |
Mitu Gulati is Professor of Law at Duke University.. Carbado is Professor of Law at University of California, Los Angeles. Devon W
"Five Stars" according to Gursharon. Wonderful book!!. Three Stars Amazon Customer Good so far. Not Just Theoretical Zain Shirazi What makes this book stand out is its coupling of theory and practical advice.The book's foundational premise is that race carries a performative aspect. It analyzes everyday examples found in popular culture (its discussion about Dave Chappelle had me belly laughing!) to show this. From here, the book explains how best one can perform his own racial identity to accomplish his goals.This combination of theory and a practical understanding of how race works in the real world is both refreshing
"Courageous, poignant, and amusing too, Acting White? takes us deep into the way racial identity operates in everyday life. Boalt Professor of Law, UC Berkeley "Carbado and Gulati's compelling book is brilliant, eloquent, and accessible to non-legal scholars. And you need to learn the performance secrets, and the performance expectations, of your friends, your colleagues, your boss. Whether you agree or disagree with them, Acting White? is creative, provocative, and a treat to read. Haney-López, John H. Readers wanting to know how to create a working identity they can live with and not feel as though they are selling out can refer to the authors' discussion of four stages of racial negotiation. Acting White? brilliantly violates a taboo, by exposing something that secretly we all sometimes do."--Ian F. This b
What does it mean to "act black" or "act white"? Is race merely a matter of phenotype, or does it come from the inflection of a person's speech, the clothes in her closet, how she chooses to spend her time and with whom she chooses to spend it? What does it mean to be "really" black, and who gets to make that judgment?In Acting White?, leading scholars of race and the law Devon Carbado and Mitu Gulati argue that, in spite of decades of racial progress and the pervasiveness of multicultural rhetoric, racial judgme
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