Delgado, R: Critical Race Theory

Acknowledgments . xiii Forew ord by Angela Harris . xv Pref ace to the Second Edition . xxi 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, . 20 and Racial Realism B. Revisionist History . 24 C. Critique of Liberalism . 26 D. Structural Determinism . 30 1. Tools of Thought and the Dilemma . 31 of Law Reform 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 . 45 Alternative Realities 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 . 90 Critical Thought, Critical Race Feminism, Queer-Crit Theory 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

Richard Delgado is Professor of Law at Seattle University and has collaborated on four previous books, including The Latino Condition, 2d edition (NYU Press, 2010), The Derrick Bell Reader (NYU Press, 2005), How Lawyers Lose Their Way: A Profession Fails Its Creative Minds, and Understanding Words That Wound.

Praise for the first edition: "Unlike other theorists, these people mean to change the world, not merely to 'ascertain how society organizes itself along racial lines and hierarchies, but to transform it for the better.' This book has served as my introduction to a field I wish I had started to cultivate and harvest much earlier." Bloomsbury Review "Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, prolific contributors to and tireless propagators of the Critical Race Theory gospel, here combine their understandings in a marvellously readable overview of this path-breaking and controversial field of legal thought that will enlighten newcomers while offering new perspectives for critics as well as adherents." Derrick Bell, author of Faces at the Bottom of the Well