Critical Race Theory

Richard Delgado, University Professor of Law at Seattle University, is one of the founding members of the Conference on Critical Race Theory. Winner of the Association of American Law Schools' 1995 Clyde Ferguson Award for outstanding law professor of color, he is the author of numerous articles in the law review literature on civil rights and 28 books, including Failed Revolutions, Words that Wound, The Rodrigo Chronicles, and Critical White Studies (Temple).  Jean Stefancic, Research Professor of Law at Seattle University, is the author of leading articles and books on Critical Race Theory, Latino/a scholarship, and social change, including No Mercy: How Conservative Think Tanks and Foundations Changed America's Social Agenda (Temple) and How Lawyers Lose Their Way: A Profession Fails Its Creative Minds.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionSuggested ReadingsPART I    CRITIQUE OF LIBERALISM1    After We’re Gone: Prudent Speculations on America in a Postracial Epoch  •  Derrick A. Bell, Jr.2    The Chronicles, My Grandfather’s Stories, and Immigration Law: The Slave Traders Chronicle as Racial History  •  Michael A. Olivas3    The New Racial Preferences  •  Devon W. Carbado and Cheryl I. Harris4    When the First Quail Calls: Multiple Consciousness as Jurisprudential Method  •  Mari J. Matsuda5    A Critique of “Our Constitution is Color-Blind”  •  Neil Gotanda6    Liberal McCarthyism and the Origins of Critical Race Theory  •  Richard Delgado7    Forbidden Conversations on Race, Privacy, and Community  •  Charles R. Lawrence IIIFrom the Editors: Issues and CommentsSuggested ReadingsPART II    STORYTELLING, COUNTERSTORYTELLING, AND NAMING ONE'S OWN REALITY8    Property Rights in Whiteness: Their Legal Legacy, Their Economic  Costs  •  Derrick A. Bell, Jr.9    Storytelling for Oppositionists and Others: A Plea for Narrative  •  Richard Delgado10    The Richmond Narratives  •  Thomas Ross11    Translating Yonnondio by Precedent and Evidence: The Mashpee Indian Case  •  Gerald Torres and Kathryn Milun12    Alchemical Notes: Reconstructing Ideals from Deconstructed Rights  •  Patricia J. Williams13    A Furious Kinship: Critical Race Theory and the Hip-Hop Nation  •  andrÉ douglas pond cummingsFrom the Editors: Issues and CommentsSuggested ReadingsPART III    REVISIONIST INTERPRETATIONS OF HISTORY AND CIVIL RIGHTS PROGRESS14    Documents of Barbarism: The Contemporary Legacy of European Racism and Colonialism in the Narrative Traditions of Federal Indian Law  •  Robert A. Williams, Jr.15    Desegregation as a Cold War Imperative  •  Mary L. Dudziak16    Liberal McCarthyism: How Four Radical Professors Lost Their Jobs and How Their Displacement Contributed to the Dissemination of Critical Thought •  Richard Delgado17    The “Caucasian Cloak ”:  Mexican Americans and the Politics of Whiteness in the Twentieth-Century Southwest  •  Ariela J. Gross18    Did the First Justice Harlan Have a Black Brother?  •  James W. GordonFrom the Editors: Issues and CommentsSuggested ReadingsPART IV    CRITICAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCE UNDERPINNINGS OF RACE AND RACISM19    Words That Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name-Calling  •  Richard Delgado20    Law as Microagression  •  Peggy C. Davis21    Implicit Bias, Election 2008, and the Myth of a Postracial America  •  Gregory S. Parks and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski22    Trojan Horses of Race  •  Jerry Kang23    Working Identity  •  Devon W. Carbado and Mitu Gulati24    The Social Construction of Race  •  Ian F. Haney LÓpez25    Cracking the Egg: Which Came First-Stigma or Affirmative Action?  •  Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Emily Houh, and Mary CampbellFrom the Editors: Issues and CommentsSuggested ReadingsPART V     CRIME26    Race Ipsa Loquitur:  Of Reasonable Racists, Intelligent Bayesians, and Involuntary Negrophobes  •  Jody D. Armour27    The New Jim Crow  •  Michelle Alexander28    Racially Based Jury Nullification: Black power in the Criminal Justice System  •  Paul Butler29    Race and Self-Defense: Toward a Normative Conception of Reasonableness  •  Cynthia Kwei Yung LeeFrom the Editors: Issues and CommentsSuggested ReadingsPART VI    STRUCTURAL DETERMINISM30    Serving Two Masters: Integration Ideals and Client Interests in School Desegregation Litigation  •  Derrick A. Bell, Jr.31    The Id, the Ego, and Equal Protection: Reckoning with Unconscious Racism  •  Charles R. Lawrence III32    Images of the Outsider in American Law and Culture:  Can Free Expression Remedy Systemic Social Ills?  •  Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic33    Race and the U.S.-Mexican Border: Tracing the Trajectories of Conquest  •  Juan F. PereaFrom the Editors: Issues and CommentsSuggested ReadingsPART VII    RACE, SEX, CLASS, AND THEIR INTERSECTIONS34    Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory •  Angela P. Harris35    A Hair Piece: Perspectives on the Intersection of Race and Gender  •  Paulette M. Caldwell36    From Practice to Theory, or What Is a White Woman Anyway?  •  Catharine A. MacKinnon37    The Employer Preference for the Subservient Worker and the Making of the Brown-Collar Workplace  •  Leticia M. SaucedoFrom the Editors: Issues and Comments Suggested ReadingsPART VIII    ESSENTIALISM AND ANTIESSENTIALISM38    “The Black Community,” Its Lawbreakers, and a Politics of Identification  •  Regina Austin39    Traces of the Master Narrative in the Story of African American–Korean American Conflict: How We Constructed “Los Angeles”  •  Lisa C. Ikemoto40    Obscuring the Importance of Race: The Implication of Making Comparisons Between Racism and Sexism (or Other -isms)•  Trina Grillo and Stephanie M. Wildman41    A House Divided: The Invisibility of the Multiracial Family  •  Angela Onwuachi-Willig and Jacob Willig-OnwuachiFrom the Editors: Issues and CommentsSuggested ReadingsPART IX    GAY-LEBSIAN QUEER ISSUES42    Gendered Inequality  •  Elvia R. Arriola43    Sexual Politics and Social Change  •  Darren Lenard Hutchinson44    Racing the Closet  •  Russell K. Robinson From the Editors: Issues and CommentsSuggested ReadingsPART X    BEYOND THE BLACK-WHITE BINARY45    The Black-White Binary Paradigm of Race  •  Juan F. Perea46    Toward an Asian American Legal Scholarship: Critical Race Theory, Poststructuralism, and Narrative Space  •  Robert S. Chang47    Race and Erasure: The Salience of Race to Latinos/as  •  Ian F. Haney LÓpez48    Mexican Americans and Whiteness  •  George A. Martinez49    A Rage Shared by Law: Post–September 11 Racial Violence as Crimes of Passion  •  Muneer I. Ahmad50    In Defense of the Black-White Binary: Reclaiming a Tradition of Civil Rights Scholarship  •  Roy L. Brooks and Kirsten Widner51    Racial Classification in America: Where Do We Go from Here?  •  Kenneth PrewittFrom the Editors: Issues and CommentsSuggested ReadingsPART XI    CULTURAL NATIONALISM AND SEPARATISM52    Rodrigo’s Chronicle  •  Richard Delgado53    Much Respect: Toward a Hip-Hop Theory of Punishment  •  Paul Butler54    Legal Violence and the Chicano Movement  •  Ian F. Haney LÓpez55    Demise of the Talented Tenth: The Increasing Underrepresentation of Ascendant Blacks at Selective Higher Education Institutions  •  Kevin Brown and Jeannine Bell56    Law as a Eurocentric Enterprise  •  Kenneth B. NunnFrom the Editors: Issues and CommentsSuggested ReadingsPART XII    INTERGROUP RELATIONS57    Embracing the Tar Baby: Lat-Crit Theory and the Sticky Mess of Race  •  Leslie G. Espinoza and Angela P. Harris58    Our Next Race Question: The Uneasiness Between Blacks and Latinos  •  Jorge Klor de Alva, Earl Shorris, and Cornel West59    Afro-Mexicans and the Chicano Movement: The Unknown Story  •  Tanya KaterÍ HernÁndez60    Beyond Racial Identity Politics: Toward a Liberation Theory for Multicultural Democracy  •  Manning Marable61    Rethinking Alliances: Agency, Responsibility, and Interracial Justice  •  Eric K. YamamotoFrom the Editors: Issues and Comments Suggested ReadingsPART XIII    LEGAL INSTITUTIONS, CRITICAL PEDAGOGY, AND MINORITIES IN THE LAW62    The Civil Rights Chronicles: The Chronicle of the DeVine Gift  •  Derrick A. Bell, Jr.63    The Imperial Scholar: Reflections on a Review of Civil Rights Literature  •  Richard Delgado64    Who is Excellent?  •  Mari J. Matsuda65    Complimentary Discrimination and Complementary Discrimination in Faculty Hiring  •  Angela Onwuachi-WilligFrom the Editors: Issues and Comments Suggested ReadingsPART XIV    CRITICAL RACE FEMINISM66    Stealing Away: Black Women, Outlaw Culture, and the Rhetoric of Rights  •  Monica J. Evans67    MÁscaras, Trenzas, y GreÑas: (Un)masking the Self While (Un)Braiding Latina Stories and Legal Discourse  •  Margaret E. Montoya68    Converging Stereotypes in Racialized Sexual Harassment: Where the Model Minority Meets Suzie Wong  •  Sumi K. Cho69    Of Woman Born: Courage and Strength to Survive in the Maquiladoras of Reynosa and RÍo Bravo, Tamaulipas  •  Elvia Rosales ArriolaFrom the Editors: Issues and Comments Suggested ReadingsPART XV    CRITICISM AND SELF-ANALYSIS70    Racial Critiques of Legal Academia  •  Randall L. Kennedy71    Derrick Bell-Race and Class: The Dilemma of Liberal Reform  •  Alan D. Freeman72    Telling Stories Out of School: An Essay on Legal Narratives •  Daniel A. Farber and Suzanna Sherry73    A Systemic Analysis of Affirmative Action in American Law Schools  •  Richard H. SanderFrom the Editors: Issues and Comments Suggested ReadingsPART XVI    CRITICAL RACE PRAXIS74    Fidelity to Community: A Defense of Community Lawyering  •  Anthony V. Alfieri75    The Work We Know So Little About  •  Gerald P. LÓpez76    Making the Invisible Visible: The Garment Industry’s Dirty Laundry  •  Julie A. Su77    Vampires Anonymous and Critical Race Practice  •  Robert A. Williams, Jr.From the Editors: Issues and Comments Suggested ReadingsPART XVII    CRITICAL WHITE STUDIES78    White by Law  •  Ian F. Haney LÓpez79    Innocence and Affirmative Action  •  Thomas Ross80    Language and Silence: Making Systems of Privilege Visible  •  Stephanie M. Wildman with Adrienne D. Davis81    White Latinos  •  Ian F. Haney LÓpez82    Rodrigo’s Portent: California and the Coming Neocolonial Order  •  Richard DelgadoFrom the Editors: Issues and Comments Suggested ReadingsContributorsIndex

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