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Acting White?: Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America
In Acting White, two of America's leading scholars of race and the law, Devon Carbado and Mitu Gulati, argue that that racial judgments are based not just on phenotypic skin color differences but on performative differences-how a person conforms to behavior stereotypically associated with a certain race.
| Author(s) | By Devon W. Carbado (Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles), Mitu Gulati (Professor of Law, Duke University). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Paperback / softback |
| Pages | 212 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 7 May 2015 |
| Availability | Available |
In Acting White, two of America's leading scholars of race and the law, Devon Carbado and Mitu Gulati, argue that that racial judgments are based not just on phenotypic skin color differences but on performative differences-how a person conforms to behavior stereotypically associated with a certain race.
Introduction: Acting White, Acting Black, and Doing A Lot of Work ; 1. Why Act White? ; 2. Talking White ; 3. Acting Like a Black Woman ; 4. Acting Like a White Woman ; 5. (Not) Acting Criminal ; 6. Acting Diverse ; 7. Acting Within the Law ; 8. Acting Wh
Devon Carbado is Professor of Law at University of California, Los Angeles. Mitu Gulati is Professor of Law at Duke University.
