Background
Gutierrez-Jones, Carl Scott was born on February 22, 1960 in Cheverly, Maryland, United States. Son of Jose and Joyce (Coleman) Gutierrez-Jones.
( Challenging the long-cherished notion of legal objectiv...)
Challenging the long-cherished notion of legal objectivity in the United States, Carl Gutiérrez-Jones argues that Chicano history has been consistently shaped by racially biased, combative legal interactions. Rethinking the Borderlands is an insightful and provocative exploration of the ways Chicano and Chicana artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers engage this history in order to resist the disenfranchising effects of legal institutions, including the prison and the court. Gutiérrez-Jones examines the process by which Chicanos have become associated with criminality in both our legal institutions and our mainstream popular culture and thereby offers a new way of understanding minority social experience. Drawing on gender studies and psychoanalysis, as well as critical legal and race studies, Gutiérrez-Jones's approach to the law and legal discourse reveals the high stakes involved when concepts of social justice are fought out in the home, in the workplace and in the streets.
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( The beating of Rodney King, the killing of Amadou Diall...)
The beating of Rodney King, the killing of Amadou Diallo, and the LAPD Rampart Scandal: these events have been interpreted by the courts, the media and the public in dramatically conflicting ways. Critical Race Narratives examines what is at stake in these conflicts and, in so doing, rethinks racial strife in the United States as a highly-charged struggle over different methods of reading and writing. Focusing in particular on the practice and theorization of narrative strategies, Gutierrez-Jones engages many of the most influential texts in the recent race debates including The Bell Curve, America in Black and White, The Alchemy of Race and Rights, and The Mismeasure of Man. In the process, Critical Race Narratives pursues key questions posed by the texts as they work within, or against, disciplinary expectations: can critical engagements with narrative enable a more democratic dialogue regarding race? what promise does such experimentation hold for working through the traumatic legacy of racism in the United States? Throughout, Critical Race Narratives initiates a timely dialogue between race-focused narrative experiment in scholarly writing and similar work in literary texts and popular culture.
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Gutierrez-Jones, Carl Scott was born on February 22, 1960 in Cheverly, Maryland, United States. Son of Jose and Joyce (Coleman) Gutierrez-Jones.
Bachelor, Stanford University, 1982. Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell University, 1991.
Assistant professor english University California, Santa Barbara, 1990-1995, associate professor, 1995-2001, full professor, since 2001. Chair English department, University California Santa Barbara, July since 2000.
( Challenging the long-cherished notion of legal objectiv...)
( The beating of Rodney King, the killing of Amadou Diall...)
Member leadership council, Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, Alabama, since 1990, Amnesty International, Santa Barbara, since 1990, National Council of La Raza, New York, since 1992. Volunteer Head Start, 1990-1992. Member Modern Language Association, American Studies Association, University California Santa Barbara faculty Association (president 1999-2001).
Married Leslie Sampson Jones, August 18, 1989. Children: Marina, Natalia.