Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (876 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807014435 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Philosophical. Thoughtful. Relevant. J. Al-hashimi My original impression was surprise that Anita Hill wrote this book because it is so broad in scope, both historical and forward leaning. She is looking at the meaning of home and looking at what it meant and what it might mean in an imagined future as well as the problems of the collapse of the housing market and which groups have suffered disproportionately, losing hard-won gains, with no clear reversal in sight is captured in this book.It was shocking to realize that it . jnbridkw said This book was okay, but not great.. It read more like a college paper than a book. Interesting subject, but a rather slow and repetitive read. Would not highly recommend.. Home Dr. Wilson Trivino The name Anita Hill will always be synonymous with Clarence Thomas and her testimony is legend. In her book, Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home she showcases her intellect and professorial passions. She explores the deep cracks in the levels of social economic system and with the great recession underway the real problem our nation faces is economic equity.Using case studies, her own experiences, and land mark legal cases, Hill argues for a reex
After reading this book, you will never see a house as just four walls and a roof. The women profiled in this engaging and moving book illustrate the challenges of living in America as a raced and gendered person while simultaneously demonstrating the beauty of resistance and the triumphs of family, community, and faith. and Race, Class, and Crime in America. Ogletree Jr., author of The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. Hill connects the dots between the home-making efforts of African Americans just after Reconstruction and the heartbreaking (and enraging) consequences of the subprime mortgage scandal. Bringing to bear her formidable skills as a scholar of American law, history, and culture, Hill has produced a personal narrative that reaches across color and class to explore how our family homes and our national home are inextricably linked to how we understand achievement,
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 democr
Anita Hill is a professor of social policy, law, and women’s studies at Brandeis University. She is the author of Speaking Truth to Power, in which she detailed her experience as a witness in Clarence Thomas’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings.