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Women in the criminal justice system
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ISBN: 0275944875 Year: 1994 Publisher: Westport, Conn. London Praeger


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Racing for Innocence
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ISBN: 0804778787 0804778795 0804783195 9780804783194 9780804778787 9780804778794 Year: 2012 Publisher: Palo Alto Stanford University Press

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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...

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