The American dream in black & white : the Clarence Thomas hearings / Jane Flax.
1998
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Title
The American dream in black & white : the Clarence Thomas hearings / Jane Flax.
Published
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1998.
Call Number
KF8745.T48 F58 1998
ISBN
0801435757 (alk. paper)
Description
ix, 170 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)39478021
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-155) and index.
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Variant Title
American dream in black and white
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: American Dilemmas and the American Dream
1
Ch. 1
American Dream or Nightmare? Horatio Alger and Race(d) Men
14
Ch. 2
The Male/Africanist Presence: Senatorial Representations
31
Ch. 3
The Female/Africanist Presence: Male Bonding in Contemporary American Politics
49
Ch. 4
Whose Hearing? Sexual Harassment and the Female Tease
69
Ch. 5
The Horror of Blackness: Sleaze, Dirt, and Female Traitors
83
Ch. 6
"At Least McCarthy Was Elected": Fraternal Reconciliation
94
Ch. 7
"This Is All Shakespeare": Doggett and the Transformation of Tragedy into Farce
114
Ch. 8
Why Race/Gender Domination Persists: The Necessary Failures of Abstract Individualism and Identity Politics
126
Bibliography
148
Notes
156
Index
165