Black O (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
300
Utgivningsdatum
2012-03-30
Förlag
University of Georgia Press
Originalspråk
English
Illustrationer
9 b&w photos
Dimensioner
229 x 152 x 19 mm
Vikt
363 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
402:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Matte Lam
ISBN
9780820344041

Black O

Racism and Redemption in an American Corporate Empire

av Steve Watkins
Häftad,  Engelska, 2012-03-30
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In 1988 several white managers of the Shoneys restaurant chain protested against the companys discriminatory hiring practices, including an order to blacken the O in Shoneys on minorities job applications so that the marked forms could be discarded. When the managers refused to comply, they lost their jobs but not their resolvethey sued the company. Their case grew into the largest racial job discrimination class action lawsuit of its time. Shoneys eventually offered to settle out of court, and the nearly 21,000 claimants divided a $132.5 million settlement, bringing to an abrupt end a landmark case that changed corporate attitudes nationwide. The Black O is a fascinating, behind-the-scenes story populated with many unforgettable characters, including civil rights lawyer Tommy Warren, the former college football star and convicted felon who took the case; Ray Danner, the ironfisted former CEO who developed the Shoneys concept; and Justice Clarence Thomas, former head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which sat idly by for years while complaints mounted against Shoneys. The Black O speaks to an issue that continues to have great urgency, serving as a stark refutation that the civil rights movement eliminated systemic discrimination from the workplace.
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A meticulously documented account. |Anyone who thinks blacks are too paranoid about racism should read The Black O. |A startling journalistic effort . . . An unsettling, fascinating revelation of a truly wretched corporate environment and a rare triumph for the underdog. |Watkins brings to our attention an important component in the ongoing civic debate concerning the meaning of race in contemporary American life. |A fast-paced, riveting, and fascinating investigative narrative. |A fascinating account of discriminatory corporate employment practices. |Although it is actually a painstakingly researched account of the largest private civil-rights case in U.S. history, at times it reads like an old-fashioned detective story. |An interesting, at times fascinating, account . . . of one of the largest racial discrimination class-action lawsuits in U.S. history.

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Steve Watkins is a professor of English at the University of Mary Washington. He is the author of a collection of stories, My Chaos Theory, and two young adult novels, Down Sand Mountain and What Comes After. Watkins is also an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in publications including LA Weekly, Poets and Writers, and the Nation.

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