Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory

by Valdes, Francisco; Culp, Jerome M.; Harris, Angela P.

• ISBN13: 9781566399296
• ISBN10: 1566399297
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Temple Univ Pr

Summary

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 structured to maintain white privilege. The neutrality and objectivity of the law are not just unattainable ideals; they are harmful fictions that obscure the law's role in protecting white supremacy. This notion -- so obvious to some, so unthinkable to others -- has stimulated and divided legal thinking in this country and, increasingly, abroad.

The essays in Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory -- all original -- address this notion in a variety of helpful and exciting ways. They u

Table of Contents

Foreword: Who Are We? And Why Are We Here? Doing Critical Race Theory in Hard Times
Introduction: Battles Waged, Won, and Lost: Critical Race Theory at the Turn of the Millennium	p. 1
The First Decade: Critical Reflections, or "A Foot in the Closing Door"	p. 9
Historicizing Critical Race Theory's Cutting Edge: Key Movements that Performed the Theory	p. 32
Keeping it Real: On anti-"Essentialism"	p. 71
Critiquing "Race" and its Uses: Critical Race Theory's Uncompleted Argument	p. 87
The Poetics of Colorlined Space	p. 97
Un-Natural Things: Constructions of Race, Gender, and Disability	p. 159
Race and the Immigration Laws: The Need for Critical Inquiry	p. 187
"Simple Logic": Race, the Identity Documents Rule, and the Story of a Nation Besieged and Betrayed	p. 199
Straight Out of the Closet: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation	p. 221
Celebrating Racialized Legal Narratives	p. 243
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being	p. 251
Construction Project: Color Me Queer + Color Me Family = Camilo's Story	p. 258
On Being Homeless: One Aboriginal Woman's "Conquest" of Canadian Universities, 1989-98	p. 274
Dinner and Self-Determination	p. 288
Critical Race Theory in Global Context	p. 303
Global Markets, Racial Spaces, and the Role of Critical Race Theory in the Struggle for Community Control of Investments: An Institutional Class Analysis	p. 310
Global Feminism at the Local Level: The Criminalization of Female Genital Surgeries	p. 337
Breaking Cycles of Inequality: Critical Theory, Human Rights, and Family In/Justice	p. 345
Critical Race Theory and Post-Colonial Development	p. 366
Critical Coalitions: Theory and Praxis	p. 379
Beyond, and Not Beyond, Black and White: Deconstruction Has a Politics	p. 393
Outsider Scholars, Critical Race Theory, and "Outcrit" Perspectivity: Postsubordination Vision as Jurisprudential Method	p. 399
Afterword: The Handmaid's Truth	p. 411
About the Contributors	p. 413
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