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Book SynopsisAddressing the plethora of discourses on racial injury, the author offers an interdisciplinary analysis that challenges the reader to rethink nearly every model used in examining race in the US.
Trade ReviewAn engaging and fascinating book. In a surprising and unexpected fashion, Carl Gutierrez-Jones shows how narrative fictions become social facts, and how 'raced ways of knowing' secretly shape how we make sense of our shared social life. -- George Lipsitz,author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
In its own rhetorical practices as well as its prescriptions, his book makes a powerful case for why not only John Rechy's migrants need 'alternative stories to engage their imagination and critical facilities,' but why the socially and economically privileged do too. It's an impressive display. -- Michael Cowan
Mining the proliferation of discourses of racial injury in US popular culture, law, and academics, Carl Gutierrez-Jones offers an interdisciplinary tour de force that challenges readers to rethink nearly every model for analyzing race used today. Emerging when formal politics in the US have been wholly kidnapped by the far Right, Critical Race Narratives has arrived just in time. -- Robyn Wiegman,Duke University, author of American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender
