ISBN:
1566399297
,
1566399300
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9781566399302
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxi, 414 p)
,
27 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Crossroads, Directions and A New Critical Race Theory
DDC:
305.8/00973
Keywords:
Race discrimination Law and legislation
;
United States Race relations
;
Philosophy
Abstract:
Its opponents call it part of "the lunatic fringe," a justification for "black separateness," "the most embarrassing trend in American publishing." "It" is Critical Race Theory.But what is Critical Race Theory? How did it develop? Where does it stand now? Where should it go in the future? In this volume, thirty-one CRT scholars present their views on the ideas and methods of CRT, its role in academia and in the culture at large, and its past, present, and future.Critical race theorists assert that both the procedures and the substance of American law are
Description / Table of Contents:
Enrique R. CarrascoCritical coalitions, theory and praxis / Julie A. Su, Eric K. Yamamoto -- Beyond, and not beyond, black and white: deconstruction has a politics / Mari Matsuda -- Outsider scholars, critical race theory, and "outcrit" perspectivity: postsubordination vision as jurisprudential method / Francisco Valdes.
Description / Table of Contents:
Foreword: Who are we? And why are we here? Doing critical race theory in hard times / Charles R. Lawrence IIIIntroduction: Battles waged, won, and lost: critical race theory at the turn of the millennium / Francisco Valdes, Jerome McCristal Culp, and Angela P. Harris -- The first decade: critical reflections, or "a foot in the closing door" / Kimberle Williams Crenshaw -- Historicizing critical race theory's cutting edge: key movements that performed the theory / Sumi Cho, Robert Westley -- Keeping it real: on anti-"essentialism" / Catharine A. MacKinnon -- Critiquing "race" and its uses: critical race theory's uncompleted argument / Robert S. Chang -- The poetics of colorlined space / Anthony Paul Farley -- Un-natural things: constructions of race, gender, and disability / Robert L. Hayman, Jr., Nancy Levit -- Race and the immigration laws: the need for critical inquiry / Kevin R. Johnson -- "Simple logic": race, the identity documents rule, and the story of a nation besieged and betrayed / Sherene H. Razack.
Description / Table of Contents:
Straight out of the closet: race, gender, and sexual orientation / Devon W. CarbadoCelebrating racialized legal narratives / Margaret E. Montoya -- The unbearable whiteness of being / Thomas Ross -- Construction project: color me queer and color me family: Camilo's story / Victoria Ortiz, Jennifer Elrod -- On being homeless: one aboriginal woman's "conquest" of Canadian universities, 1989-98 / Patricia Monture-Angus -- Dinner and self-determination / Henry J. Richardson III -- Critical race theory in global context / Celina Romany -- Global markets, racial spaces and the role of critical race theory in the struggle for community control of investments: an institutional class analysis / Elizabeth M. Iglesias -- Global feminism at the local level: the criminalization of female genital surgeries / Isabelle R. Gunning -- Breaking cycles of inequality: critical theory, human rights, and family in justice / Berta Esperanza Hernandez-Truyol -- Critical race theory and post-colonial development.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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