The rooster's egg /
Williams, Patricia J., 1951-
The rooster's egg / Patricia J. Williams. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1995. - [ix], 262 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Scarlet, the Sequel -- Pansy Quits -- Radio Hoods -- Unbirthing the Nation -- White Men Can't Count -- Town Hall Television -- Clarence X -- A Hearing of One's Own -- Quayle Has a Cow -- The Unbearable Autonomy of Being -- Black-Power Dream Barbie -- In Search of Pharaoh's Daughter -- The Rooster's Egg.
In these pages we encounter figures and images plucked from headlines -from Tonya Harding to Lani Guinier, Rush Limbaugh to Hillary Clinton, Clarence Thomas to Dan Quayle - and see how their portrayal, encoding certain stereotypes, often reveals more about us than about them. What are we really talking about when we talk about welfare mothers, for instance? Why is calling someone a "redneck" okay, and what does that say about our society? When young women appear on Phil Donahue to represent themselves as Jewish American Princesses, what else are they doing? These are among the questions Williams considers as she uncovers the shifting, often covert rules of conversation that determine who "we" are as a nation.
0674779428 (alk. paper) 9780674779426 (hbk.) $22.00
Oral communication--Social aspects--United States.
Hate speech--United States.
Stereotypes (Social psychology)--United States.
302.22420973 WIL / 005322
The rooster's egg / Patricia J. Williams. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1995. - [ix], 262 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Scarlet, the Sequel -- Pansy Quits -- Radio Hoods -- Unbirthing the Nation -- White Men Can't Count -- Town Hall Television -- Clarence X -- A Hearing of One's Own -- Quayle Has a Cow -- The Unbearable Autonomy of Being -- Black-Power Dream Barbie -- In Search of Pharaoh's Daughter -- The Rooster's Egg.
In these pages we encounter figures and images plucked from headlines -from Tonya Harding to Lani Guinier, Rush Limbaugh to Hillary Clinton, Clarence Thomas to Dan Quayle - and see how their portrayal, encoding certain stereotypes, often reveals more about us than about them. What are we really talking about when we talk about welfare mothers, for instance? Why is calling someone a "redneck" okay, and what does that say about our society? When young women appear on Phil Donahue to represent themselves as Jewish American Princesses, what else are they doing? These are among the questions Williams considers as she uncovers the shifting, often covert rules of conversation that determine who "we" are as a nation.
0674779428 (alk. paper) 9780674779426 (hbk.) $22.00
Oral communication--Social aspects--United States.
Hate speech--United States.
Stereotypes (Social psychology)--United States.
302.22420973 WIL / 005322