Affiliation:
1. Communication Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract
To understand one type of race trouble, this study examines a federal civil trial brought by a white employee suing her African American supervisor for creating a racially hostile work environment. After explaining race trouble and its connection to talk about racism, background is provided on civil trials and this particular trial. Events about which competing accounts were offered in the trial included assignment of office space, meeting conduct, and use of the N-word and African American language. For each event I show how anti-white racism was argued for and how that argument was resisted. In the conclusion, I consider what this trial illuminates about twenty-first century U.S. race relations.
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Sociology and Political Science,Anthropology,Language and Linguistics,Education,Social Psychology
Cited by
1 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献