Race, Gender and Power in America
By: sponsored by Georgetown University Law Center
Publisher: Georgetown University Law Center
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Subjects: Sexual harassment of women; Congresses; African American women; Social conditions; Racism
Notes: Cover title.

Papers prepared for the conference 'Race, Gender and Power in America' held at Georgetown University Law Center, Friday, Oct. 16, 1992.

Participants: Robert L. Allen, Adele Logan Alexander, Judith C. Areen, A. Leon Higginbotham, Anita Faye Hill (co-chair), Emma Coleman Jordan (co-chair), Mari J. Matsuda, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Orlando Patterson, Judith Resnik, Susan Deller Ross, Anna Deavere Smith.

Includes short biographies of participants.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The power of racial memory: intraracial sexual harassment, a place where gender has no name / by Emma Coleman Jordan; title: "'She's no lady; she's a nigger': the demeaning legacies and images of African-American women" / by Adele Logan Alexander; title: Who cares? The burden of thinking about wrongs done to women / Judith Resnik; title: Sexual harassment one year later / Susan Deller Ross; title: Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas / Eleanor Holmes Norton; title: Culture and gender relations in the Black community: re-opening a discourse on some very dirty linen / Orlando Patterson; title: Stopping sexual harassment: a challenge for community education / by Robert L. Allen; title: Marriage and patronage in the empowerment and disempowerment of African American women / by Anita Faye Hill.