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After her astonishing testimony in the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill ceased to be a private citizen and became a public figure at the white-hot center of an intense national debate on how men and women relate to each other in the workplace. That debate led to ground-breaking court decisions and major shifts in corporate policies that have had a profound effect on our lives--and on Anita Hill's life. Now, with remarkable insight and total candor, Anita Hill reflects on events before, during, and after the hearings, offering for the first time a complete account that sheds startling new light on this watershed event.
Only after reading her moving recollection of her childhood on her family's Oklahoma farm can we fully appreciate the values that enabled her to withstand the harsh scrutiny she endured during the hearings and for years afterward. Only after reading her detailed narrative of the Senate Judiciary proceedings do we reach a new understanding of how Washington--and the media--rush to judgment. And only after discovering the personal toll of this wrenching ordeal, and how Hill copes, do we gain new respect for this extraordinary woman.
Here is a vitally important work that allows us to understand why Anita Hill did what she did, and thereby brings resolution to one of the most controversial episodes in our nation's history.
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From the heroic lawyer who spoke out against Clarence Thomas in
the historic confirmation hearings twenty years ago
"This ambitious book provides just as dignified and well
intentioned a performance as the one she gave at those
hearings."
--Megan Buskey, "The New York Times Book Review"
Through the stories of remarkable African American women, including
her own great-great-grandmother, playwright Lorraine Hansberry, and
Baltimore beauty-shop owner and housing-crisis survivor Anjanette
Booker, Anita Hill demonstrates that the inclusive democracy our
Constitution promises must be conceived with home in mind. From
slavery to the Great Migration to the subprime mortgage meltdown,
"Reimagining Equality "takes us on a journey that sparks a new
conversation about what it means to be at home in America and
presents concrete proposals that encourage us to reimagine
equality.
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