TY - BOOK ID - 10003494 TI - Racing for innocence : whiteness, gender, and the backlash against affirmative action PY - 2012 SN - 0804778787 0804778795 0804783195 9780804783194 9780804778787 9780804778794 PB - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Affirmative action programs - United States - Public opinion. KW - Collective memory - United States. KW - Lawyers - United States - Attitudes. KW - Mass media and public opinion - United States. KW - Public opinion - United States. KW - Racism - United States. KW - United States - Race relations. KW - Whites - Race identity - United States. KW - Whites - United States - Attitudes. KW - Women lawyers - United States - Attitudes. KW - Affirmative action programs KW - Whites KW - Lawyers KW - Women lawyers KW - Racism KW - Mass media and public opinion KW - Collective memory KW - Public opinion KW - Commerce KW - Business & Economics KW - Marketing & Sales KW - Attitudes KW - Race identity KW - Public opinion. KW - Attitudes. KW - United States KW - Race relations. KW - Collective remembrance KW - Common memory KW - Cultural memory KW - Emblematic memory KW - Historical memory KW - National memory KW - Public memory KW - Social memory KW - Women as lawyers KW - Advocates KW - Attorneys KW - Bar KW - Barristers KW - Jurists KW - Legal profession KW - Solicitors KW - Equal employment opportunity KW - Equal opportunity in employment KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Race question KW - Memory KW - Social psychology KW - Group identity KW - National characteristics KW - Representation in administrative proceedings KW - Discrimination in employment KW - Personnel management KW - Minorities KW - Employment KW - Persons KW - White persons KW - Ethnology KW - Caucasian race KW - White people UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:10003494 AB - How is it that recipients of white privilege deny the role they play in reproducing racial inequality? Racing for Innocence addresses this question by examining the backlash against affirmative action in the late 1980's and early 1990's-just as courts, universities, and other institutions began to end affirmative action programs. This book recounts the stories of elite legal professionals at a large corporation with a federally mandated affirmative action program, as well as the cultural narratives about race, gender, and power in the news media and Hollywood films. Though... ER -