Very strong. Written by attorneys for attorneys, a study of jurisprudence and legal theory. Maybe non-attorneys can derive some benefit, but this is not a simplification or popularization for laypersons. It also likely requires some training in philosophy or related disciplines. This isn't a book ab ...more
This seminal collection of work centering Critical Race Theory has not only proven to be personally revolutionary in how I both conceptualize and contextualize the nuanced interaction between race and law in this country and within the realm of academia but has also helped in rooting my understandin ...more
Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement is a phenomenal work. It is a compilation of some of the most important writings that formed and sustained the Critical Race Theory (“CRT”) movement. The book includes articles from Derrick Bell, Richard Delgado, Mari Matsuda, Anthony C ...more
I gave/loaned this book to a student in my AP Statistics course this year and I highly recommend this collection of essays and writing for any person who claims to know anything on race, "intersectionality," etc. Truly eye-opening in terms of how language can be co-opted to mean whatever the speaker ...more
Anyone who values a free and open society should read this collection. First, recent right-wing hysteria about CRT threatens basic academic freedoms; so for that reason alone, you should buy this book and make sure it remains on bookstore and library shelves. Second, anyone on the broad left-wing sh ...more
Critical Race Theory has been around for what I consider to be objectively — in human life-span years — a long time. This book was published in 1995, and it is already a retrospective: “writings that formed the movement.” The editors (or someone) regrettably saw fit not to include the publication or ...more
AN EXCELLENT COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ABOUT CRT AND CRITICAL LEGAL STUDIES
The Foreword by Cornel West to this 1995 collection explains, “Critical Race theorists have, for the first time, examined the entire edifice of contemporary legal thought and doctrine from the viewpoint of law’s role in the constr ...more
A collection of primary source Critical Race Theory (CRT) legal essays. Reading primary sources is extremely informative and this book is a helpful tool for understanding CRT, it’s genesis, it’s tenets, and how liberal and progressive attempts to overcome systemic injustice have not achieved their d ...more
This was a very interesting book and really gives the reader a good idea of the diversity of perspectives within critical race theory as well as a sense of what it is that unifies these diverse perspectives. One of my biggest criticisms of the book is that in its understandable focus on African-Amer ...more
Terrific overview & in-depth treatment of critical race theory (CRT). Each chapter has classroom exercises and suggestions for further reading along with legal case examples wherein CRT was appropriately applied. I appreciate the glossary of terms for easy reference—so many terms are specific to CRT ...more
There is no royal road to knowledge of what critical race theory is and certainly not by listening to what CNN, Fox News or any secondary source says. To really know you need to go to primary sources and this book provides them.
This book is quite long: about 500 pages and it takes quite a bit of tim ...more
i am outside of history. i wish i had some peanuts, it looks hungry there in its cage. i am inside of history. its hungrier than i thot.* — Ishmael Reed
Whole lot of heavy hitters here. Generally, we are proceeding from a "Deconstructivist" Critical Legal Studies to an "Interventionist" theory (which ...more
This legal text book on CRT walks through the development of the thought in legal studies in the U.S. The variety of writers consistently present their ideas in a breadth of articles that are organized chronologically in some sense and categorically based on what area of culture at large they are to ...more