Acknowledgments
Introduction
Suggested Readings
PART I CRITIQUE OF LIBERALISM
1 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. Olivas
3 The New Racial Preferences • Devon W. Carbado and Cheryl I. Harris
4 When the First Quail Calls: Multiple Consciousness as Jurisprudential Method • Mari J. Matsuda
5 A Critique of “Our Constitution is Color-Blind” • Neil Gotanda
6 Liberal McCarthyism and the Origins of Critical Race Theory • Richard Delgado
7 Forbidden Conversations on Race, Privacy, and Community • Charles R. Lawrence III
From the Editors: Issues and Comments
Suggested Readings
PART II STORYTELLING, COUNTERSTORYTELLING, AND NAMING ONE'S OWN REALITY
8 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 Delgado
10 The Richmond Narratives • Thomas Ross
11 Translating Yonnondio by Precedent and Evidence: The Mashpee Indian Case • Gerald Torres and Kathryn Milun
12 Alchemical Notes: Reconstructing Ideals from Deconstructed Rights • Patricia J. Williams
13 A Furious Kinship: Critical Race Theory and the Hip-Hop Nation • andré douglas pond cummings
From the Editors: Issues and Comments
Suggested Readings
PART III REVISIONIST INTERPRETATIONS OF HISTORY AND CIVIL RIGHTS PROGRESS
14 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. Dudziak
16 Liberal McCarthyism: How Four Radical Professors Lost Their Jobs and How Their Displacement Contributed to the Dissemination of Critical Thought • Richard Delgado
17 The “Caucasian Cloak ”: Mexican Americans and the Politics of Whiteness in the Twentieth-Century Southwest • Ariela J. Gross
18 Did the First Justice Harlan Have a Black Brother? • James W. Gordon
From the Editors: Issues and Comments
Suggested Readings
PART IV CRITICAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCE UNDERPINNINGS OF RACE AND RACISM
19 Words That Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name-Calling • Richard Delgado
20 Law as Microagression • Peggy C. Davis
21 Implicit Bias, Election 2008, and the Myth of a Postracial America • Gregory S. Parks and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski
22 Trojan Horses of Race • Jerry Kang
23 Working Identity • Devon W. Carbado and Mitu Gulati
24 The Social Construction of Race • Ian F. Haney López
25 Cracking the Egg: Which Came First—Stigma or Affirmative Action? • Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Emily Houh, and Mary Campbell
From the Editors: Issues and Comments
Suggested Readings
PART V CRIME
26 Race Ipsa Loquitur: Of Reasonable Racists, Intelligent Bayesians, and Involuntary Negrophobes • Jody D. Armour
27 The New Jim Crow • Michelle Alexander
28 Racially Based Jury Nullification: Black power in the Criminal Justice System • Paul Butler
29 Race and Self-Defense: Toward a Normative Conception of Reasonableness • Cynthia Kwei Yung Lee
From the Editors: Issues and Comments
Suggested Readings
PART VI STRUCTURAL DETERMINISM
30 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 III
32 Images of the Outsider in American Law and Culture: Can Free Expression Remedy Systemic Social Ills? • Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
33 Race and the U.S.-Mexican Border: Tracing the Trajectories of Conquest • Juan F. Perea
From the Editors: Issues and Comments
Suggested Readings
PART VII RACE, SEX, CLASS, AND THEIR INTERSECTIONS
34 Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory • Angela P. Harris
35 A Hair Piece: Perspectives on the Intersection of Race and Gender • Paulette M. Caldwell
36 From Practice to Theory, or What Is a White Woman Anyway? • Catharine A. MacKinnon
37 The Employer Preference for the Subservient Worker and the Making of the Brown-Collar Workplace • Leticia M. Saucedo
From the Editors: Issues and Comments
Suggested Readings
PART VIII ESSENTIALISM AND ANTIESSENTIALISM
38 “The Black Community,” Its Lawbreakers, and a Politics of Identification • Regina Austin
39 Traces of the Master Narrative in the Story of African American–Korean American Conflict: How We Constructed “Los Angeles” • Lisa C. Ikemoto
40 Obscuring the Importance of Race: The Implication of Making Comparisons Between Racism and Sexism (or Other -isms)
• Trina Grillo and Stephanie M. Wildman
41 A House Divided: The Invisibility of the Multiracial Family • Angela Onwuachi-Willig and Jacob Willig-Onwuachi
From the Editors: Issues and Comments
Suggested Readings
PART IX GAY-LEBSIAN QUEER ISSUES
42 Gendered Inequality • Elvia R. Arriola
43 Sexual Politics and Social Change • Darren Lenard Hutchinson
44 Racing the Closet • Russell K. Robinson
From the Editors: Issues and Comments
Suggested Readings
PART X BEYOND THE BLACK-WHITE BINARY
45 The Black-White Binary Paradigm of Race • Juan F. Perea
46 Toward an Asian American Legal Scholarship: Critical Race Theory, Poststructuralism, and Narrative Space • Robert S. Chang
47 Race and Erasure: The Salience of Race to Latinos/as • Ian F. Haney López
48 Mexican Americans and Whiteness • George A. Martinez
49 A Rage Shared by Law: Post–September 11 Racial Violence as Crimes of Passion • Muneer I. Ahmad
50 In Defense of the Black-White Binary: Reclaiming a Tradition of Civil Rights Scholarship • Roy L. Brooks and Kirsten Widner
51 Racial Classification in America: Where Do We Go from Here? • Kenneth Prewitt
From the Editors: Issues and Comments
Suggested Readings
PART XI CULTURAL NATIONALISM AND SEPARATISM
52 Rodrigo’s Chronicle • Richard Delgado
53 Much Respect: Toward a Hip-Hop Theory of Punishment • Paul Butler
54 Legal Violence and the Chicano Movement • Ian F. Haney López
55 Demise of the Talented Tenth: The Increasing Underrepresentation of Ascendant Blacks at Selective Higher Education Institutions • Kevin Brown and Jeannine Bell
56 Law as a Eurocentric Enterprise • Kenneth B. Nunn
From the Editors: Issues and Comments
Suggested Readings
PART XII INTERGROUP RELATIONS
57 Embracing the Tar Baby: Lat-Crit Theory and the Sticky Mess of Race • Leslie G. Espinoza and Angela P. Harris
58 Our Next Race Question: The Uneasiness Between Blacks and Latinos • Jorge Klor de Alva, Earl Shorris, and Cornel West
59 Afro-Mexicans and the Chicano Movement: The Unknown Story • Tanya Katerí Hernández
60 Beyond Racial Identity Politics: Toward a Liberation Theory for Multicultural Democracy • Manning Marable
61 Rethinking Alliances: Agency, Responsibility, and Interracial Justice • Eric K. Yamamoto
From the Editors: Issues and Comments
Suggested Readings
PART XIII LEGAL INSTITUTIONS, CRITICAL PEDAGOGY, AND MINORITIES IN THE LAW
62 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 Delgado
64 Who is Excellent? • Mari J. Matsuda
65 Complimentary Discrimination and Complementary Discrimination in Faculty Hiring • Angela Onwuachi-Willig
From the Editors: Issues and Comments
Suggested Readings
PART XIV CRITICAL RACE FEMINISM
66 Stealing Away: Black Women, Outlaw Culture, and the Rhetoric of Rights • Monica J. Evans
67 Máscaras, Trenzas, y Greñas: (Un)masking the Self While (Un)Braiding Latina Stories and Legal Discourse • Margaret E. Montoya
68 Converging Stereotypes in Racialized Sexual Harassment: Where the Model Minority Meets Suzie Wong • Sumi K. Cho
69 Of Woman Born: Courage and Strength to Survive in the Maquiladoras of Reynosa and Río Bravo, Tamaulipas • Elvia Rosales Arriola
From the Editors: Issues and Comments
Suggested Readings
PART XV CRITICISM AND SELF-ANALYSIS
70 Racial Critiques of Legal Academia • Randall L. Kennedy
71 Derrick Bell—Race and Class: The Dilemma of Liberal Reform • Alan D. Freeman
72 Telling Stories Out of School: An Essay on Legal Narratives • Daniel A. Farber and Suzanna Sherry
73 A Systemic Analysis of Affirmative Action in American Law Schools • Richard H. Sander
From the Editors: Issues and Comments
Suggested Readings
PART XVI CRITICAL RACE PRAXIS
74 Fidelity to Community: A Defense of Community Lawyering • Anthony V. Alfieri
75 The Work We Know So Little About • Gerald P. López
76 Making the Invisible Visible: The Garment Industry’s Dirty Laundry • Julie A. Su
77 Vampires Anonymous and Critical Race Practice • Robert A. Williams, Jr.
From the Editors: Issues and Comments
Suggested Readings
PART XVII CRITICAL WHITE STUDIES
78 White by Law • Ian F. Haney López
79 Innocence and Affirmative Action • Thomas Ross
80 Language and Silence: Making Systems of Privilege Visible • Stephanie M. Wildman with Adrienne D. Davis
81 White Latinos • Ian F. Haney López
82 Rodrigo’s Portent: California and the Coming Neocolonial Order • Richard Delgado
From the Editors: Issues and Comments
Suggested Readings
Contributors
Index