'Exciting and sobering at the same time, Looking White People in the Eye shows that the challenge of cross-cultural communication, whether in the courtroom, classroom, or anywhere else, is much tougher than any of us like to think. This is true, in part, because, Razack shows, we must first admit our own complicity in the oppression of those whom we are trying to understand or help.'
Richard Delgado, Charles Inglis Thomson Professor of Law at the University of Colorado at Boulder and author of The Rodrigo Chronicles and Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge.
'Looking White People in the Eye is a stunning and crucial book for feminist practice. Questioning received and well-intentioned notions of activism in classrooms, courtrooms and women's groups, Sherene Razack insists that multiculturalist goals have to be theoretically informed by contextualized understandings of race and colonialism. The is an extremely important work, not just for academics and lawyers, but for all those interested in contemporary debates on the future of feminism in North America.'
Inderpal Grewal, Professor, Women Studies, San Francisco State University, and author of Home and Harem and co-editor of Scattered Hegemonies.
'Sherene Razack's gaze is deep and searching. Bringing the insights (but not the jargon) of postcolonial theory to her search for "a theory of difference that accounts for the violence in the lives of women and our complicity in it," Razack asks us to look, and look again, at the practices in courtrooms and classrooms in which we are all enmeshed. She offers no easy answers, only the discipline of refusing to look away. This is a difficult, deep, and ultimately rewarding book.'
Angela P. Harris, Professor of Law, University of California - Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and author of 'Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory,' Stanford Law Review
