| Description |
xxxii, 494 pages ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Intellectual precursors: early criticism of conventional civil rights discourse -- Critical race theory and critical legal studies: contestation and coalition -- Toward a critical cultural pluralism: progressive alternatives to mainstream civil rights ideology -- Critical race theory and legal doctrine -- The search for an oppositional voice -- the intersection of race and gender -- Race and postmodernism |
| Summary |
In the past few years, a new generation of progressive intellectuals has dramatically transformed how law, race, and racial power are understood and discussed in America. Questioning the old assumptions of both liberals and conservatives with respect to the goals and the means of traditional civil rights reform, critical race theorists have presented new paradigms for understanding racial injustice and new ways of seeing the links between race, gender, sexual orientation, and class. This reader, edited by the principal founders and leading theoreticians of the critical race theory movement, gathers together for the first time the movement's most import essays. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Critical race theory
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Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States
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Racism -- United States
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Race relations
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| Author |
West, Cornel, writer of foreword
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Crenshaw, Kimberlé, editor
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Gotanda, Neil, editor
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Peller, Gary, editor
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Thomas, Kendall, editor
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| LC no. |
94041459 |
| ISBN |
9781565842700 (hc.) |
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1565842707 (hc.) |
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9781565842717 (pbk.) |
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1565842715 (pbk.) |
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