Critical Race Narratives: A Study of Race, Rhetoric, and Injury

by Carl Gutiérrez-Jones

Book Overview

The beating of Rodney King, the killing of Amadou Diallo, and the LAPD Rampart Scandal: these events have been interpreted by the courts, the media and the public in dramatically conflicting ways. Critical Race Narratives examines what is at stake in these conflicts and, in so doing, rethinks racial strife in the United States as a highly-charged struggle over different methods of reading and writing.
Focusing in particular on the practice...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814731457
• ISBN13: 9780814731451
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"