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Law professor Maria Consuelo O’Brien Hylton’s parents are a Black Cuban woman and a White Australian man. When Northwestern began considering her for a position at the law school, Black and Latino student groups protested her candidacy and claimed she would not represent or meet their needs. The Hylton case made its way into major newspapers’ headlines and sparked heated debate. In particular, reporters and commentators gravitated towards the perceived irony of Blacks calling other Blacks inauthentic. This, I argue, fit in with two recurrent themes that were strong in mid-1990’s mainstream media: judging which (if any) black people “deserve” affirmative action, and an interest in conflicts within the Black public sphere. |
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Name: International Communication Association
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| Squires, Catherine. "Descended from Whom? Affirmative Action and Definitions of Blackness" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Sheraton New York, New York City, NY, <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p12747_index.html> |
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| Squires, C. R. "Descended from Whom? Affirmative Action and Definitions of Blackness" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Sheraton New York, New York City, NY Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p12747_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Law professor Maria Consuelo O’Brien Hylton’s parents are a Black Cuban woman and a White Australian man. When Northwestern began considering her for a position at the law school, Black and Latino student groups protested her candidacy and claimed she would not represent or meet their needs. The Hylton case made its way into major newspapers’ headlines and sparked heated debate. In particular, reporters and commentators gravitated towards the perceived irony of Blacks calling other Blacks inauthentic. This, I argue, fit in with two recurrent themes that were strong in mid-1990’s mainstream media: judging which (if any) black people “deserve” affirmative action, and an interest in conflicts within the Black public sphere. |
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| Chapter 3 Descended from whom? Affirmative action and definitions of blackness by Catherine R. Squires University of Michigan CAAS & Communication Studies 4/28/05 Descended from whom? 2 Descended from whom? Affirmative action and definitions of blackness Introduction The case I discuss in this chapter concerns the scrutiny brought to a job candidate’s racial pedigree making what might have been a routine faculty retention process into a minor firestorm over the meaning of Black identity and affirmative action. Law professor |
| personal to the national having both rhetorical and practical effects on how we think about groups politics and policy. 4 By 1995 when the majority of the articles on Maria Hylton were written groups like AMEA and Project RACE were well established and had been in the news a number of times. 5 See Toni Morrison ed. Race-ing Justice En-gendering Power (1992) for essays and commentary on how Thomas and his supporters portrayed him as an innocent minority within |
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