The United States Senate hearings in 1991 on the controversial nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, and accusations of sexual harassment brought by Anita Hill, disturbed radio and television audiences throughout the world and immediately provoked outraged debate.
Toni Morrison has gathered together 18 essays on the subject by leading American academics, and has written an incisive introduction. The result is a searching discussion of the historical, political, cultural, personal, legal, sexual and linguistic ramifications of the Thomas/Hill affair.
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Issues just as important today as they were then.,
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This review is from: Race-ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality (Paperback)
Take one overwhelmingly male-centered and predominantly white society, add huge portions of power, racism, sexism, a misinformed public and gross displays of injustice, and you've got a recipe for the American way. This collection of essays written at the time of the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings holds every bit of relevance now as it did nine years ago. Highlighting earlier civil rights legal battles and connecting their influence to the hearings themselves, each essayist examines in progressive detail just how pervasive--indeed, how dangerously latent--racism and sexism are in our society. How the volatile and often avoided issue of race can blind the equally volative and often dismissed issue of sexism in any race. In these essays, we are given a shockingly clear image of the circus that was the mishandling of the hearings. Explosive, revealling, and thought-provoking, this book yanks the proverbial rose-colored glasses from our collective American conscience and dares us to think for ourselves.
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Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court, African Americans, New York, United States, White House, Professor Hill, James Baldwin, Pin Point, Thurgood Marshall, The Price of the Ticket, President Bush, George Bush, David Duke, Leon Higginbotham, Virginia Thomas, Emma Mae Martin, Strom Thurmond, Civil Rights Act, Martin Luther King, Frederick Douglass, Civil War, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Jesse Jackson New!
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The President has signed your Commission and you have now become the 106th Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court, African Americans, New York, United States, White House, Professor Hill, James Baldwin, Pin Point, Thurgood Marshall, The Price of the Ticket, President Bush, George Bush, David Duke, Leon Higginbotham, Virginia Thomas, Emma Mae Martin, Strom Thurmond, Civil Rights Act, Martin Luther King, Frederick Douglass, Civil War, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Jesse Jackson New!
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