Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory : And A New Critical Race Theory.

By: Valdes, FranciscoContributor(s): Harris, Angela | Culp, Jerome McCristalMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (439 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781439907795Subject(s): Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States | United States -- Race relations -- PhilosophyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory : And A New Critical Race TheoryDDC classification: 305.8/00973 LOC classification: KF4755Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- 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 -- Part I: Histories -- 1. The First Decade:Critical Reflections, or "A Foot in the Closing Door -- 2. Historicizing Critical Race Theory's Cutting Edge: Key Movements That Performed the Theory -- 3. Keeping It Real: On Anti-"Essentialism -- Part II: Crossroads -- Section A: Race -- Critiquing "Race" and Its Uses: Critical Race Theory's Uncompleted Argument -- 4. The Poetics of Colorlined Space -- 5. Un-Natural Things: Constructions of Race, Gender, and Disability -- 6. Race and the Immigration Laws: The Need for Critical Inquiry -- 7. "Simple Logic": Race, the Identity Documents Rule, and the Story of a Nation Besieged and Betrayed -- 8. Straight Out of the Closet: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation -- Section B: Narrativity -- Celebrating Racialized Legal Narratives -- 9. The Unbearable Whiteness of Being -- 10. Construction Project: Color Me Queer + Color Me Family = Camilo's Story -- 11. On Being Homeless: One Aboriginal Woman's "Conquest" of Canadian Universities, 1989-98 -- 12. Dinner and Self-Determination -- Section C: Globalization -- Critical Race Theory in Global Context -- 13. Global Markets, Racial Spaces, and the Role of Critical Race Theory in the Struggle for Community Control of Investments: An Institutional Class Analysis -- 14. Global Feminism at the Local Level: The Criminalization of Female Genital Surgeries -- 15. Breaking Cycles of Inequality: Critical Theory, Human Rights, and Family In/justice -- 16. Critical Race Theory and Post-Colonial Development: Radically Monitoring the World Bank and the IMF -- Part III: Directions -- 17. Critical Coalitions: Theory and Praxis.
18. Beyond, and Not Beyond, Black and White: Deconstruction Has a Politics -- 19. Outsider Scholars, Critical Race Theory, and "OutCrit" Perspectivity: Postsubordination Vision as Jurisprudential Method -- Afterword: The Handmaid's Truth -- About the Contributors.
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 actions 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 use analysis, personal experience, historical narrative, and many other techniques to explain the importance of looking critically at how race permeates our national consciousness.
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Intro -- 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 -- Part I: Histories -- 1. The First Decade:Critical Reflections, or "A Foot in the Closing Door -- 2. Historicizing Critical Race Theory's Cutting Edge: Key Movements That Performed the Theory -- 3. Keeping It Real: On Anti-"Essentialism -- Part II: Crossroads -- Section A: Race -- Critiquing "Race" and Its Uses: Critical Race Theory's Uncompleted Argument -- 4. The Poetics of Colorlined Space -- 5. Un-Natural Things: Constructions of Race, Gender, and Disability -- 6. Race and the Immigration Laws: The Need for Critical Inquiry -- 7. "Simple Logic": Race, the Identity Documents Rule, and the Story of a Nation Besieged and Betrayed -- 8. Straight Out of the Closet: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation -- Section B: Narrativity -- Celebrating Racialized Legal Narratives -- 9. The Unbearable Whiteness of Being -- 10. Construction Project: Color Me Queer + Color Me Family = Camilo's Story -- 11. On Being Homeless: One Aboriginal Woman's "Conquest" of Canadian Universities, 1989-98 -- 12. Dinner and Self-Determination -- Section C: Globalization -- Critical Race Theory in Global Context -- 13. Global Markets, Racial Spaces, and the Role of Critical Race Theory in the Struggle for Community Control of Investments: An Institutional Class Analysis -- 14. Global Feminism at the Local Level: The Criminalization of Female Genital Surgeries -- 15. Breaking Cycles of Inequality: Critical Theory, Human Rights, and Family In/justice -- 16. Critical Race Theory and Post-Colonial Development: Radically Monitoring the World Bank and the IMF -- Part III: Directions -- 17. Critical Coalitions: Theory and Praxis.

18. Beyond, and Not Beyond, Black and White: Deconstruction Has a Politics -- 19. Outsider Scholars, Critical Race Theory, and "OutCrit" Perspectivity: Postsubordination Vision as Jurisprudential Method -- Afterword: The Handmaid's Truth -- About the Contributors.

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 actions 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 use analysis, personal experience, historical narrative, and many other techniques to explain the importance of looking critically at how race permeates our national consciousness.

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