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 and theorization of
narrative strategies, Gutierrez-Jones engages many of the most
influential texts in the recent race debatesincluding The Bell
Curve, America in Black and White, The Alchemy of Race and Rights,
and The Mismeasure of Man. In the process, Critical Race Narratives
pursues key questions posed by the texts as they work within, or
against, disciplinary expectations: can critical engagements with
narrative enable a more democratic dialogue regarding race? what
promise does such experimentation hold for working through the
traumatic legacy of racism in the United States? Throughout,
Critical Race Narratives initiates a timely dialogue between
race-focused narrative experiment in scholarly writing and similar
work in literary texts and popular culture."
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