Looking white people in the eye : gender, race, and culture in courtrooms and classrooms / Sherene H. Razack
- Bib ID:
- 1917369
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Razack, Sherene
- Description:
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- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c1998
- 256 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 080200928X (bound) (hardback)
- 0802078982 (paperback)
- Summary:
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In this book Sherene Razack explores what happens when whites look at non-whites, and in particular at non-white women. Many studies examining this encounter between dominant and subordinate groups focus on how it occurs in films, books, and popular culture. In contrast, Razack addresses how non-white women are viewed, and how they must respond, in classrooms and courtrooms. Examining the discussion of equity issues in the classroom and immigration and sexual violence cases in the courtroom, she argues that non-white women must often present themselves as culturally different instead of oppressed. Seen as victims of their own oppressive culture who must be pitied and rescued by white men and women, non-white women cannot then be seen as subjects. This book makes clear why we must be wary of educational and legal strategies that begin with saving 'Other' women.
It offers powerful arguments for why it is important to examine who are the saviours and who are the saved, and what we must do to disrupt these historical relations of power.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: Looking White People in the Eye
- 1. 'The Cold Game of Equality Staring'
- 2. The Gaze from the Other Side: Storytelling for Social Change
- 3. What Is to Be Gained by Looking White People in the Eye? Race in Sexual Violence Cases
- 4. Policing the Borders of Nation: The Imperial Gaze in Gender Persecution Cases
- 5. From Pity to Respect: The Ableist Gaze and the Politics of Rescue
- 6. Conclusion: To Essentialize or Not to Essentialize: Is This the Question?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1998
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