Critical Race Theory

by Delgado, Richard; Stefancic, Jean; Harris, Angela

• ISBN13: 9780814721353
• ISBN10: 0814721354
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-09
• Publisher: New York Univ Pr

Summary

2009 ChoiceOutstanding Academic Title Is job insecurity the new norm? With fewer and fewer people working in steady, long-term positions for one employer, has the dream of a secure job with full benefits and a decent salary become just thata dream? In Nice Work If You Can Get It, Andrew Ross surveys the new topography of the global workplace and finds an emerging pattern of labor instability and uneven development on a massive scale. Combining detailed case studies with lucid analysis and graphic prose, he looks at what the new landscape of contingent employment means for workers across national, class, and racial linesfrom the emerging "creative class" of high-wage professionals to the multitudes of temporary, migrant, or low-wage workers. Developing the idea of "precarious livelihoods" to describe this new world of work and life, Ross explores what it means in developed nationscomparing the creative industry policies of the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union, as well as developing countriesby examining the quickfire transformation of China's labor market. He also responds to the challenge of sustainability, assessing the promise of "green jobs" through restorative alliances between labor advocates and environmentalists. Ross argues that regardless of one's views on labor rights, globalization, and quality of life, this new precarious and "indefinite life,&" and the pitfalls and opportunities that accompany it is likely here to stay and must be addressed in a systematic way. A more equitable kind of knowledge society emerges in these pagesless skewed toward flexploitation and the speculative beneficiaries of intellectual property, and more in tune with ideals and practices that are fair, just, and renewable.

Author Biography

Delgado and Stefancic have revised the book to include material on key issues such as colorblind jurisprudence, Latino-Critical scholarship, immigration, and the rollback of affirmative action. This second edition of Critical Racial Theory introduces readers to important new voices in fields outside of law, including education and psychology, and offers greatly expanded issues for discussion, updated reading lists, and an extensive glossary of terms. Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic are Professors of Law at Seattle University and have collaborated on four previous books, including The Latino Condition, 2d edition (NYU Press, 2010), The Derrick Bell Reader (NYU Press, 2005), How Lawyers Lose Their Way: A Profession Fails Its Creative Minds, and Understanding Words That Wound.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xv
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xxi
Introduction	p. 1
What Is Critical Race Theory?	p. 3
Early Origins	p. 4
Relationship to Previous Movements	p. 4
Principal Figures	p. 5
Spin-off Movements	p. 6
Basic Tenets of Critical Race Theory	p. 7
How Much Racism Is There in the World?	p. 10
Organization of This Book	p. 12
Questions and Comments for Chapter I	p. 15
Suggested Readings	p. 16
Hallmark Critical Race Theory Themes	p. 19
Interest Convergence, Material Determinism, and Racial Realism	p. 20
Revisionist History	p. 24
Critique of Liberalism	p. 26
Structural Determinism	p. 30
Tools of Thought and the Dilemma of Law Reform	p. 31
The Empathic Fallacy	p. 32
Classroom Exercise	p. 35
Serving Two Masters	p. 35
Classroom Exercise	p. 36
Race Remedies Law as a Homeostatic Device	p. 37
Questions and Comments for Chapter II	p. 39
Suggested Readings	p. 41
Legal Storytelling and Narrative Analysis	p. 43
Opening a Window onto Ignored or Alternative Realities	p. 45
Counterstorytelling	p. 48
Cure for Silencing	p. 49
Storytelling in Court	p. 51
Storytelling on the Defensive	p. 52
Questions and Comments for Chapter III	p. 53
Suggested Readings	p. 55
Looking Inward	p. 57
Intersectionality	p. 57
Essentialism and Antiessentialism	p. 62
Nationalism versus Assimilation	p. 65
Classroom Exercise	p. 69
Questions and Comments for Chapter IV	p. 70
Suggested Readings	p. 72
Power and the Shape of Knowledge	p. 75
The Black-White Binary	p. 75
Critical White Studies	p. 83
Classroom Exercise	p. 90
Other Developments: Latino and Asian Critical Thought, Critical Race Feminism, Queer-Crit Theory	p. 90
Questions and Comments for Chapter V	p. 95
Suggested Readings	p. 97
Critiques and Responses to Criticism	p. 99
Classroom Exercise	p. 108
Questions and Comments for Chapter VI	p. 109
Suggested Readings	p. 111
Critical Race Theory Today	p. 113
Right-Wing Offensive	p. 114
Postracialism and a Politics of Triangulation	p. 114
Unmasking Color Blindness	p. 115
Race, Class, Welfare, and Poverty	p. 120
Globalization	p. 124
Power	p. 127
Identity	p. 135
Classroom Exercise	p. 137
Questions and Comments for Chapter VII	p. 138
Suggested Readings	p. 141
Conclusion	p. 143
The Future	p. 143
A Critical Race Agenda for the New Century	p. 145
Likely Responses to the Critical Race Theory Movement	p. 147
Critical Race Theory Becomes the New Civil Rights Orthodoxy	p. 148
Critical Race Theory Marginalized and Ignored	p. 148
Critical Race Theory Analyzed, but Rejected	p. 149
Partial Incorporation	p. 149
Classroom Exercise	p. 150
Questions and Comments for Chapter VIII	p. 152
Suggested Readings	p. 153
Glossary of Terms	p. 155
Index	p. 175
About the Authors	p. 185
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