On The Surface, The Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas Hearings Seemed To Be Relatively

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Term Paper Title	On The Surface, The Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas Hearings Seemed To Be Relatively
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On the surface, the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings seemed to be relatively simple, wherein a man who was a candidate for one of the country's most prestigious positions was challenged by a former co-worker claiming sexual misconduct.  It seemed at first to be a story that the American public was somewhat familiar with: politicians and prestigious men have been linked several times before with charges involving sexual misconduct.  However, when we get a closer look at the situation, America was seemingly not ready for the incredibly complex debate that ensued; where issues of race, sexuality, class and gender would be addressed, constructed, (mis)used and manipulated.  The first question that arises then, is how the American public and various groups of people attempted to untangle such a complex debate.  Upon attempting to analyze the elements of the story, we inevitably encounter some serious questions and contradictions that make the extraction of various elements extremely tricky.
     In order to effectively provide a conceptual framework that serves to make sense of this complicated situation, I argue that we must look chronologically backwards, and work from the end of the debate to the beginning.  The framework of this paper then, will be focused around addressing a set of questions that will attempt to expose and explain the contradictions that arose in the debate, and how sense was made of these (on the surface), by various interest groups.
     Having premised this, I will begin at the end with the first set questions: What was the result of the situation, and why? How did Clarence Thomas succeed in coming out the victor of such adverse circumstances? To answer this question we must revisit an entire history that became an important feature in debate, and was called upon to reshape the framework.
     Although admittedly somewhat awkward, starting at the end point of this debate will allow the complexities of the entire story to unfold in such a way that will serve to uncover and re-emphasize the mutually constituting categories of race, class and sexuality.
     As a starting point, what proved to be an especially fascinating moment of the proceedings was how Thomas chose to deal with Hill's allegations.  This incredibly deliberate move served to reframe the story, and became the crucial moment that arguably forced Hill to be conceptually paralyzed and thus written out of the story.  When we look at this particular part of the debate, two important contrad...

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