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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

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In Telling Stories, Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett argue that personal narratives-autobiographies, oral histories, life history interviews, and memoirs-are an important research tool for understanding the relationship between people and their societies. Gathering examples from throughout the world and from premodern as well as contemporary cultures, they draw from labor history and class analysis, feminist sociology, race relations, and anthropology to demonstrate the value of personal narratives for scholars and students alike.Telling Stories explores why and how personal narratives should be used as evidence, and the methods and pitfalls of their use. The authors stress the importance of recognizing that stories that people tell about their lives are never simply individual. Rather, they are told in historically specific times and settings and call on rules, models, and social experiences that govern how story elements link together in the process of self-narration. Stories show how individuals' motivations, emotions, and imaginations have been shaped by their cumulative life experiences. In turn, Telling Stories demonstrates how the knowledge produced by personal narrative analysis is not simply contained in the stories told; the understanding that takes place between narrator and analyst and between analyst and audience enriches the results immeasurably.

Autobiography. --- Oral biography. --- Oral history --- Social sciences --- Methodology. --- Biographical methods. --- Autobiographies --- Autobiography --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- Biography --- Biographical methods in the social sciences --- Biography in the social sciences --- History and criticism --- Technique