The Rooster's Egg (Revised)
Harvard University Press, April 1997. Paper Back. Used - Very Good. Item #237332
ISBN: 0674779436
In these pages we encounter figures and images plucked from headlines -from Tonya Harding to Lani Guinier, Rush Limbaugh to Hillary Clinton, Clarence Thomas to Dan Quayle - and see how their portrayal, encoding certain stereotypes, often reveals more about us than about them. What are we really talking about when we talk about welfare mothers, for instance? Why is calling someone a "redneck" okay, and what does that say about our society? When young women appear on Phil Donahue to represent themselves as Jewish American Princesses, what else are they doing? These are among the questions Williams considers as she uncovers the shifting, often covert rules of conversation that determine who "we" are as a nation.
To a culture speaking with barely masked hysteria, this book brings a voice of reason and a reminder of the decency that is missing from so much of our public debate. Patricia J. Williams addresses the wounds in America's public soul, and uncovers the shifting, often covert rules of conversation that determine who 'we' are as a nation. Clean, sound, without internal markings.
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