Rewriting Race: Justice Sonia Sotomayor and the Power of Dissent.
The article examines how the dissenting opinions authored by justice Sonia Sotomayor expanded the rhetoric of race and judicial speech at the U.S. Supreme Court by drawing on whiteness, colorblindness and critical race theory. Topics discussed include role of judicial voice in court, feminist rhetor...
| Publicado en: | Women's Studies Vol. 53; no. 5; pp. 609 - 635 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul/Aug2024
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| Sumario: | The article examines how the dissenting opinions authored by justice Sonia Sotomayor expanded the rhetoric of race and judicial speech at the U.S. Supreme Court by drawing on whiteness, colorblindness and critical race theory. Topics discussed include role of judicial voice in court, feminist rhetorical criticism that typifies legal opinion writing, feminist theoretical work on race, affect and embodiment, and feminism's analysis of rights rooted in social and structural relations of power. |
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