Critical race theory : an introduction / Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic ; foreword by Angela Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delgado, Richard.

Contributor:

Stefancic, Jean.

Series:

Critical America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race discrimination--Law and legislation--United States.

Race discrimination.

Race discrimination--Law and legislation.

Race relations.

Philosophy.

United States.

Critical legal studies--United States.

Critical legal studies.

United States--Race relations--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xxii, 185 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2012]

Summary:

In 2001, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic published their definitive Critical Race Theory, a compact introduction to the field that explained, in straightforward language, the origins, principal themes, leading voices, and new directions of this important movement in legal thought. Since then, critical race theory has gone on to influence numerous other fields of scholarship, and the Delgado and Stefancic primer has remained an indispensible guide for students and teachers. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Introduction 1

A What Is Critical Race Theory? 3

B Early Origins 4

C Relationship to Previous Movements 4

D Principal Figures 5

E Spin-off Movements 6

F Basic Tenets of Critical Race Theory 7

G How Much Racism Is There in the World? 10

H Organization of This Book 12

Questions and Comments for Chapter I 15

Suggested Readings 16

II Hallmark Critical Race Theory Themes 19

A Interest Convergence, Material Determinism, and Racial Realism 20

B Revisionist History 24

C Critique of Liberalism 26

D Structural Determinism 30

1 Tools of Thought and the Dilemma of Law Reform 31

2 The Empathic Fallacy 32

Classroom Exercise 35

3 Serving Two Masters 35

Classroom Exercise 36

4 Race Remedies Law as a Homeostatic Device 37

Questions and Comments for Chapter II 39

Suggested Readings 41

III Legal Storytelling and Narrative Analysis 43

A Opening a Window onto Ignored or Alternative Realities 45

B Counterstorytelling 48

C Cure for Silencing 49

D Storytelling in Court 51

E Storytelling on the Defensive 52

Questions and Comments for Chapter III 53

Suggested Readings 55

IV Looking Inward 57

A Intersectionality 57

B Essentialism and Antiessentialism 62

C Nationalism versus Assimilation 65

Classroom Exercise 69

Questions and Comments for Chapter IV 70

Suggested Readings 72

V Power and the Shape of Knowledge 75

A The Black-White Binary 75

B Critical White Studies 83

Classroom Exercise 90

C Other Developments: Latino and Asian Critical Thought, Critical Race Feminism, Queer-Crit Theory 90

Questions and Comments for Chapter V 95

Suggested Readings 97

VI Critiques and Responses to Criticism 99

Classroom Exercise 108

Questions and Comments for Chapter VI 109

Suggested Readings 111

VII Critical Race Theory Today 113

A Right-Wing Offensive 114

B Postracialism and a Politics of Triangulation 114

1 Unmasking Color Blindness 115

2 Race, Class, Welfare, and Poverty 120

3 Globalization 124

C Power 127

D Identity 135

Classroom Exercise 137

Questions and Comments for Chapter VII 138

Suggested Readings 141

VIII Conclusion 143

A The Future 143

B A Critical Race Agenda for the New Century 145

C Likely Responses to the Critical Race Theory Movement 147

1 Critical Race Theory Becomes the New Civil Rights Orthodoxy 148

2 Critical Race Theory Marginalized and Ignored 148

3 Critical Race Theory Analyzed, but Rejected 149

4 Partial Incorporation 149

Classroom Exercise 150.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814721346

0814721346

9780814721353

0814721354

9780814721360

0814721362

9780814785294

0814785298

OCLC:

739647105