Was Blind, But Now I See: White Race Concsiousness and the Law Contributor(s): Flagg, Barbara J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814726437 ISBN-13: 9780814726433 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $88.11 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 1997 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Law | Discrimination - Law | Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice - Law | Civil Rights |
Dewey: 346.730 |
LCCN: 97021162 |
Series: Critical America |
Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.76" W x 8.5" (0.77 lbs) 204 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Race does not speak to most white people. Rather, whites tend to associate race with people of color and to equate whiteness with racelessness. As Barbara J. Flagg demonstrates in this important book, this transparency phenomenon--the invisibility of whiteness to white people--profoundly affects the ways in whites make decisions: they rely on criteria perceived by the decision maker as race-neutral but which in fact reflect white, race-specific norms. |
Contributor Bio(s): Flagg, Barbara J.: - Barbara J. Flagg is Professor of Law at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. She graduated from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a former law clerk for then-Court of Appeals Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, |