Law Unbound!: A Richard Delgado Reader

by Delgado,Richard

• ISBN13: 9781594512476
• ISBN10: 1594512477
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book offers the best and most influential writings of Richard Delgado, one of the founding figures of the critical race theory movement and one of the earliest scholars to address the harms of hate speech. With excerpts from his classic law review articles, conversations with his famous alter ego Rodrigo Crenshaw, and comments on the vicissitudes of academic life, this book spans topics such as hate speech, affirmative action, the war on terror, the endangered status of black men, and the place of Latinos in the civil rights equation.

Author Biography

Richard Delgado is University Distinguished Professor and Derrick Bell Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Narrative and Legal Storytelling	p. 1
Storytelling for Oppositionists and Others: A Plea for Narrative	p. 3
Rodrigo's Chronicle	p. 20
Rodrigo's Third Chronicle: Care, Competition, and the Redemptive Tragedy of Race	p. 34
Rodrigo's Final Chronicle: Cultural Power, the Law Reviews, and the Attack on Narrative Jurisprudence	p. 52
Rodrigo's Eleventh Chronicle: Empathy and False Empathy	p. 69
Critical Theory	p. 91
The Racial Double Helix: Watson, Crick, and Brown v. Board of Education	p. 93
Rodrigo's Fourth Chronicle: Neutrality and Stasis in Antidiscrimination Law	p. 101
Rodrigo's Eighth Chronicle: Black Crime, White Fears-On the Social Construction of Threat	p. 117
Rodrigo's Ninth Chronicle: Race, Legal Instrumentalism, and the Rule of Law	p. 137
Linking Arms: Interracial Coalition as an Avenue of Social Reform	p. 154
Law, Legal Education, and the Legal Profession	p. 165
The Imperial Scholar: Reflections on a Review of Civil Rights Literature	p. 167
Rodrigo's Thirteenth Chronicle: Legal Formalism and Law's Discontents	p. 175
Official Elitism or Institutional Self-Interest? Ten Reasons Why Law Schools Should Abandon the LSAT	p. 197
Hate Speech	p. 209
Words That Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name-Calling	p. 211
The "More Speech" Solution: Can Free Expression Remedy Systemic Social Ills?	p. 217
Campus Antiracism Rules: Constitutional Narratives in Collision	p. 225
Toward a Legal Realist View of the First Amendment	p. 234
Law Reform	p. 241
The Social Construction of Brown v. Board of Education: Law Reform and the Reconstructive Paradox	p. 243
Joseph Sax, the Public Trust Theory of Environmental Protection, and Some Dark Thoughts on the Possibility of Law Reform	p. 253
On Taking Back Our Civil Rights Promises: When Equality Doesn't Compute	p. 258
Rodrigo's Sixth Chronicle: Intersections, Essences, and the Dilemma of Social Reform	p. 262
Latinos and Other Nonblack Minorities	p. 283
Rodrigo's Fifteenth Chronicle: Racial Mixture, Latino-Critical Scholarship, and the Black-White Binary	p. 285
Derrick Bell's Toolkit: Fit to Dismantle That Famous House?	p. 296
Politics and Critique	p. 307
Shadowboxing: An Essay on Power	p. 309
Rodrigo's Seventh Chronicle: Race, Democracy, and the State	p. 314
Rodrigo's Remonstrance: Love and Despair in an Age of Indifference	p. 327
Rodrigo's Roadmap: Is the Marketplace Theory for Eradicating Discrimination a Blind Alley?	p. 338
Zero-Based Racial Politics: An Evaluation of Three Best-Case Arguments on Behalf of the Nonwhite Underclass	p. 356
Affirmative Action	p. 363
1998 Hugo L. Black Lecture: Ten Arguments against Affirmative Action-How Valid?	p. 365
Rodrigo's Tenth Chronicle: Merit and Affirmative Action	p. 375
Annotated Bibliography	p. 397
Index	p. 419
About the Author and Editors	p. 431
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