Professor Jennifer Pierce will present "Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash against Affirmative Action" as the final colloquium of the Gender Sexuality Power and Politics Colloquium on Friday November 30th at 12:15pm in 400 Ford Hall.
***This Friday, November 30th***
Jennifer Pierce
Professor, Department of American Studies
University of Minnesota
"Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action"
12:15pm; 400 Ford Hall
Jennifer Pierce's new book, Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action (Stanford U Press, 2012), reconsiders white privilege and racial inequality by examining the backlash against affirmative action, recounting stories of elite professionals at a large corporation with a federally mandated affirmative action program as well as the broader cultural narratives about race, gender, and power that circulated in the news media and Hollywood films. Drawing on three different approaches - ethnography, narrative analysis, and fiction - the book conceptualizes the complexities of racial and gendered inequality in the contemporary United States. Pierce's talk for the GSPP Colloquium will focus on her ethnographic research with white male professionals.
