Critical race theory : the cutting edge / edited by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I. CRITIQUE OF LIBERALISM -- After We're Gone : Prudent Speculations on America in a Postracial Epoch / Derrick A. Bell, Jr. -- The Chronicles, My Grandfather's Stories, and Immigration Law : The Slave Traders Chronicle as Racial History / Michael A. Olivas -- The New Racial Preferences / Devon W. Carbado and Cheryl I. Harris -- When the First Quail Calls : Multiple Consciousness as Jurisprudential Method / Mari J. Matsuda -- A Critique of "Our Constitution is Color-Blind" / Neil Gotanda -- Liberal McCarthyism and the Origins of Critical Race Theory / Richard Delgado -- Forbidden Conversations on Race, Privacy, and Community / Charles R. Lawrence III -- PART II. STORYTELLING, COUNTERSTORYTELLING, AND NAMING ONE'S OWN REALITY -- Property Rights in Whiteness : Their Legal Legacy, Their Economic Costs / Derrick A. Bell, Jr. -- Storytelling for Oppositionists and Others : A Plea for Narrative / Richard Delgado -- The Richmond Narratives / Thomas Ross -- Translating Yonnonidio by Precedent and Evidence : The Mashpee Indian Case / Gerald Torres and Kathryn Milun -- Alchemical Notes : Reconstructing Ideals from Deconstructed Rights / Patricia J. Williams -- A Furious Kinship : Critical Race Theory and the Hip-Hop Nation / Andrâe Douglas Pond Cummings.

PART III. REVISIONIST INTERPRETATIONS OF HISTORY AND CIVIL RIGHTS PROGRESS -- Documents of Barbarism : The Contemporary Legacy of Euroepan Racism and Colonialism in the Narrative Traditions of Federal Indian Law / Robert A. Williams, Jr. -- Desegregation as a Cold War Imperative / Mary L. Dudziak -- Liberal McCarthyism : How four Radical Professors Lost Their Jobs and How Their Displacement Contributed to the Dissemination of Critical Thought / Richard Delgado -- The "Caucasian Cloak" ; Mexican Americans and the Politics of Whiteness in the Twentieth-Century Southwest / Ariela J. Gross -- Did the First Justice Harlan Have a Black Brother? / James W. Gordon -- PART IV. CRITICAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCE UNDERPINNINGS OF RACE AND RACISM -- Words That Wound : A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name-Calling / Richard Delgado -- Law as Microagression / Peggy C. Davis -- Implicit Bias, Election 2008, and the Myth of a Postracial America / Gregory S. Parks and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski -- Trojan Horses of Race / Jerry Kang -- Working Identity / Devon W. Carbado and Mitu Gulati -- The Social Construction of Race / Ian F. Haney Lâopez -- Cracking the Egg : Which Came First -- Stigma or Affirmative Action? / Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Emily Houh, and Mary Campbell.

PART V. CRIME -- Race Ipsa Loquitur : Of Reasonable Racists, Intelligent Bayesians, and Involuntary Negrophobes / Jody D. Armour -- The New Jim Crow / Michelle Alexander -- Racially Based Jury Nullification : Black Power in the Criminal Justice System / Paul Butler -- Race and Self-Defense : Toward a Normative Conception of Reasonableness / Cynthia Kwei Yung Lee -- PART VI. STRUCTURAL DETERMINISM -- Serving Two Masters : Integration Ideals and Client Interests in School Desegregation Litigation / Derrick A. Bell, Jr. -- The Id, the Ego, and Equal Protection : Reckoning with Unconscious Racism / Charles R. Lawrence III -- Images of the Outsider in American Law and Culture : Can Free Expression Remedy Systemic Social Ills? / Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic -- Race and the U.S.-Mexican Border : Tracing the Trajectories of Conquest / Juan F. Perea -- PART VII. RACE, SEX, CLASS, AND THEIR INTERSECTIONS -- Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory / Angela P. Harris -- A Hair Piece : Perspectives on the Intersection of Race and Gender / Paulette M. Caldwell -- From Practice to Theory, or What is a White Woman Anyway? / Catharine A. MacKinnon -- The Employer Preference for the Subservient Worker and the Making of the Brown-Collar Workplace / Leticia M. Saucedo -- PART VIII. ESSENTIALISM AND ANTIESSENTIALISM -- "The Black Community," Its Lawbreakers, and a Politics of Identification / Regina Austin -- Traces of the Master Narrative in the Story of African American-Korean American Conflict : How We Constructed "Los Angeles" / Lisa C. Ikemoto.

Obscuring the Importance of Race : The Implication of Making Comparison Between Racism and Sexism (or Other -Isms) / Trina Gillo and Stephanie M. Wildman -- A House Divided : The Invisibility of the Multiracial Family / Angela Onwuachi-Willig and Jacob Willig-Onwuachi -- PART IX. GAY-LESBIAN QUEER ISSUES -- Gendered Inequality / Elvia R. Arriola -- Sexual Politics and Social Change / Darren Lenard Hutchinson -- Racing the Closet / Russell K. Robinson -- PART X. BEYOND THE BLACK-WHITE BINARY -- The Black-White Binary Paradigm of Race / Juan F. Perea -- Toward an Asian American Legal Scholarship : Critical Race Theory, Poststructuralism, and Narrative Space / Robert S. Chang -- Race and Erasure : The Salience of Race to Latinos/as / Ian F. Haney Lâopez -- Mexican Americans and Whiteness / George A. Martinez -- A Rage Shared by Law : Post-September 11 Racial Violence as Crimes of Passion / Muneer I. Ahmad -- In Defense of the Black-White Binary : Reclaiming a Tradition of Civil Rights Scholarship / Roy L. Brooks and Kirsten Widner -- Racial Classification in America : Where Do We Go from Here? / Kenneth Prewitt -- PART XI. CULTURAL NATIONALISM AND SEPARATISM -- Rodrigo's Chronicle / Richard Delgado -- Much Respect : Toward a Hip-Hop Theory of Punishment / Paul Butler -- Legal Violence and the Chicano Movement / Ian f. Haney Lâopez -- Demise of the Talented Tenth : The Increasing Underrepresentation of Ascendant Blacks at Selective Higher Education Institutions / Kevin Brown and Jeannine Bell -- Law as a Eurocentric Enterprise / Kenneth B. Nunn.

PART XII. INTERGROUP RELATIONS -- Embracing the Tar Baby : Lat-Crit Theory and the Sticky Mess of Race / Leslie G. Espinoza and Angela P. Harris -- Our Next Race Question : The Uneasiness Between Blacks and Latinos / Jorge Klor de Alva, Earl Shorris, and Cornel West -- Afro-Mexicans and the Chicano Movement : The Unknown Story / Tanya Kateri Hernâandez -- Beyond Racia Identity Politics : Toward a Liberation Theory for Multicultural Democracy / Manning Marable -- Rethinking Alliances : Agency, Responsibility, and Interracial Justice / Eric K. Yamamoto -- PART XIII. LEGAL INSTITUTIONS, CRITICAL PEDAGOGY, AND MINORITIES IN THE LAW -- The Civil Rights Chronicles : The Chronicle of the DeVine Gift / Derrick A. Bell, Jr. -- The Imperial Scholar : Reflections on a Review of Civil Rights Literature / Richard Delgado -- Who Is Excellent? / Mari J. Matsuda -- Complimentary Discriminiation and Complementary Discrimination in Faculty Hiring / Angela Onwuachi-Willig -- PART XIV. CRITICAL RACE FEMINISM -- Stealing Away : Black Women, Outlaw Culture, and the Rhetoric of Rights / Monica J. Evans -- Mâascaras, Trenzas, y Greänas : (Un)Masking the Self While (Un)Braiding Latina Stories and Legal Discourse / Margaret E. Montoya -- Converging Stereotypes in Racialized Sexual Harrassment : Where the Model Minority Meets Suzie Wong / Sumi K. Cho -- Of Woman Born : Courage and Strength to Survive in the Maquiladoras of Reynoas and Râio Bravo, Tamaulipas / Elvia Rosales Arriola.

PART XV. CRITICISM AND SELF-ANALYSIS -- Racial Critiques of Legal Academia / Randall L. Kennedy -- Derrick Bell -- Race and Class : The Dilemma of Liberal Reform / Alan D. Freeman -- Telling STories out of School : An Essay on Legal Narratives / Daniel A. Farber and Suzanna Sherry -- A Systemic Analysis of Affirmative Action in American Law Schools / Richard H. Sander -- PART XVI. CRITICAL RACE PRAXIS -- Fidelity to Community : A Defense of Community Lawyering / Anthony V. Alfieri -- The Work We Know So Little About / Gerald P. Lâopez -- Making the Invisible Visible : The Garment Industry's Dirty Laundry / Julie A. Su -- Vampires Anonymous and Critical Race Practice / Robert A. Williams, Jr. -- PART XVII. CRITICAL WHITE STUDIES -- Whites by Law / Ian F. Haney Lâopez -- Innocence and Affirmative Action / Thomas Ross -- Language and Silence : Making Systems of Privilege Visible / Stephanie M. Wildman with Adrienne D. Davis -- White Latinos / Ian F. Haney Lâopez -- Rodrigo's Portent : California and the Coming Neocolonial Order / Richard Delgado.