Race, gender, and power in America : the legacy of the Hill-Thomas hearings / edited by Anita Faye Hill, Emma Coleman Jordan.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1995.
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| Physical Description: | xxxii, 302 pages ; 25 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- "She's no lady, she's a nigger": abuses, stereotypes, and realities from the middle passage to capitol (and Anita) Hill / Adele Logan Alexander
- The Hill-Thomas hearings--what took place and what happened: white male domination, black male domination, and the denigration of black women / A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
- The power of false racial memory and the metaphor of lynching / Emma Coleman Jordan
- The crisis of gender relations among African Americans / Orlando Patterson
- The message of the verdict: a three-act morality play starring Clarence Thomas, Willie Smith, and Mike Tyson / Charles R. Lawrence
- Stopping sexual harassment: a challenge for community education / Robert L. Allen
- The people vs. Anita Hill: a case for client-centered advocacy / Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
- From the senate judiciary committee to the country courthouse: the relevance of gender, race, and ethnicity to adjudication / Judith Resnik
- Sexual harassment law in the aftermath of the Hill-Thomas hearings / Susan Deller Ross
- Anita Hill and the year of the woman / Eleanor Holmes Norton
- The most riveting television: the Hill-Thomas hearings and popular culture / Anna Deavere Smith
- Marriage and patronage in the empowerment and disempowerment of African American women / Anita Faye Hill.