1996
DOI: 10.2307/3480927
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The Tales of White Folk: Doctrine, Narrative, and the Reconstruction of Racial Reality

Abstract: Ask your own soul what it would say if the next census were to report that half of black America was dead and the other half dying.' PROLOGUE Black America, some people said, was dying. And they wondered what they would hear in the souls of white folk when white America heard the news. Part of the story, perhaps, was told in June 1995, by the Supreme Court of all America. 2 The session of the Court had not been convened to determine the fate of black America-not explicitly, at any rate, and

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“…Y, finalmente, se produce la "rebelión el lector", con la que la obra se abre a muy distintos sentidos que dependen de la mirada de quien lee (Eagleton, 1983;1985). La comprensión paralela del Derecho como texto convierte en asunto fundamental "si los textos tienen un significado determinado objetivo e identificable; si el significado de un texto podría coincidir con la intención del autor; y si los lectores, en el proceso de interpretación, son libres para asignar la significación al texto" (Hayman;Levit;Delgado, 2002, p. 463). Comp.…”
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“…Y, finalmente, se produce la "rebelión el lector", con la que la obra se abre a muy distintos sentidos que dependen de la mirada de quien lee (Eagleton, 1983;1985). La comprensión paralela del Derecho como texto convierte en asunto fundamental "si los textos tienen un significado determinado objetivo e identificable; si el significado de un texto podría coincidir con la intención del autor; y si los lectores, en el proceso de interpretación, son libres para asignar la significación al texto" (Hayman;Levit;Delgado, 2002, p. 463). Comp.…”
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“…White (1973White ( , 1990White ( , 2000. Por eso, "[l]os trabajos sustantivos de la literatura pueden ayudar a comprender los principios constitucionales al ilustrar de forma penetrante las formas de problemas personales que deberían ser reconocidos como controversias universales" (Hayman;Levit;Delgado, 2002, p. 462).…”
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“…It is also argued that the narrative dimensions of judicial decision‐making are too often overlooked ( Hayman and Levitt 1996, 377) and that the stories that judges adopt and retell are often ‘stock’ stories which are framed by the (insider) dominant world view of the legal profession, which is traditionally white, middle class and male ( Sarmas 1994, 701).…”
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What emerges is a jurisprudence of nostalgia based on the story of a cohesive past. In the face of change, there arises a yearning for an imagined past, a beckoning back to a history constructed largely without the benefit of counter stories, to a simple, more stable, time when cultural discourse was not confounded by the sound of dissonant voices ( Hayman and Levitt 1996, 416).
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