Looking White People in the Eye - Sherene Razack

Looking White People in the Eye

Gender, Race, and Culture in Courtrooms and Classrooms

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
1998
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-0-8020-0928-9 (ISBN)
74,80 inkl. MwSt
Examining the classroom discussion of equity issues and legal cases involving immigration and sexual violence, Razack addresses how non-white women are viewed, and how they must respond, in classrooms and courtrooms.
In this book Sherene Razack explores what happens when whites look at non-whites, and in particular at non-white women. Most 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.

Sherene H. Razack is a professor in the Department of Social Justice at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 25.4.1998
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 235 mm
Gewicht 526 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sexualität / Partnerschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-8020-0928-X / 080200928X
ISBN-13 978-0-8020-0928-9 / 9780802009289
Zustand Neuware
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