Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge

A significant revision of a classroom mainstay for the twenty-first century

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 * andre 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 Lopez25 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 Lopez48 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 Lopez55 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 Kateri Hernandez60 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 Mascaras, Trenzas, y Grenas: (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 Rio 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. Lopez76 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 Lopez79 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 Lopez82 Rodrigo's Portent: California and the Coming Neocolonial Order * Richard DelgadoFrom the Editors: Issues and Comments Suggested ReadingsContributorsIndex