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The Civil Rights Society: The Social Construction of Victims - Softcover

Bumiller, Kristin

 
9780801845109: The Civil Rights Society: The Social Construction of Victims
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0801845106 ISBN 13: 9780801845109
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

In a provocative examination of the role of law in promoting social change, Kristin Bumiller contents that one effect of antidiscrimination laws has been to perpetuate the victimization of the people they were intended to benefit. Probing the role of legal ideology in "the social construction of everyday life," The Civil Rights Society describes the ways in which the social identity of victims constrains their choices and reinforces their sense of powerlessness.

Whereas previous analyses have documented the ineffectiveness of antidiscrimination measures, Bumiller focuses on the impact of unrelistic expectations about law on people's lives. Grounded in a wide reading of social theory and supported with interview data, The Civil Rights Society reveals an important dimension of the failure of legal action to address many of the most persistent forms of racial and sexual oppression.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kristin Bumiller is associate professor of political science at Amherst College.

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'Bumiller provides an original and badly needed perspective for understanding antidiscrimination law, and raises probing and disturbing questions about effective governmental strategies for helping people who are disadvantaged in other ways as well.'--Murray Edelman, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Verlag
Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0801845106
ISBN 13 
9780801845109
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
174
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