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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...

Affirmative action programs - United States - Public opinion. --- Collective memory - United States. --- Lawyers - United States - Attitudes. --- Mass media and public opinion - United States. --- Public opinion - United States. --- Racism - United States. --- United States - Race relations. --- Whites - Race identity - United States. --- Whites - United States - Attitudes. --- Women lawyers - United States - Attitudes. --- Affirmative action programs --- Whites --- Lawyers --- Women lawyers --- Racism --- Mass media and public opinion --- Collective memory --- Public opinion --- Commerce --- Business & Economics --- Marketing & Sales --- Attitudes --- Race identity --- Public opinion. --- Attitudes. --- United States --- Race relations. --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Women as lawyers --- Advocates --- Attorneys --- Bar --- Barristers --- Jurists --- Legal profession --- Solicitors --- Equal employment opportunity --- Equal opportunity in employment --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Race question --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- Representation in administrative proceedings --- Discrimination in employment --- Personnel management --- Minorities --- Employment --- Persons --- White persons --- Ethnology --- Caucasian race --- White people