Race, rights, and redemption : the Derrick Bell lectures on the law and critical race theory
Edition
Paperback edition.
Publication Information
New York ; London : The New Press, 2021.
Physical Description
xi, 392 pages ; 23 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
"Race, Rights, and Redemption (which was originally published in hardcover under the title Carving Out a Humanity) gathers some of our country's brightest progressive legal stars in a volume that illuminates facets of the law that have continued to perpetuate racial inequality and to confound our nation at the start of a new millennium."--
Notes
Originally published as: Carving out a humanity. 2020.
Introduction by Congresswoman Barbara Lee.
Contents
- No justice, no peace / Charles Ogletree
- Each other's harvest / Charles Lawrence
- The archetypes that haunt us / Patricia J. Williams
- Derrick Bell's toolkit-fit to dismantle that famous house? / Richard Delgado
- Enlisting race, resisting power, transforming democracy / Lani Guinier
- Accountability for private life / Anita Allen
- Somebody else's child / Mari Matsuda
- From the West to the rest : interest convergence in California racial politics / Cheryl I. Harris
- Envisioning abolition : sex, citizenship, and the racial imaginary of the killing state / Kendall Thomas
- And we are still not saved : twenty-first-century Constitutional conflicts / Derrick Bell
- Racism as the ultimate deception / John Calmore (lecture delivered by Derrick Bell)
- Like a loaded weapon / Robert A. Williams
- A hip-hop theory of justice / Paul Butler
- Between slavery and freedom: the deep racial roots of the 2008 financial crisis / Emma Coleman Jordan
- After Obama : three "post-racial" challenges / Devon W. Carbado
- Justice undone : color blindness after civil rights / Ian Haney López
- Critiquing the family tree : white supremacy in the writing of history / Annette Gordon-Reed
- Badges and incidents : lingering vestiges of slavery in the Thirteenth Amendment / William Carter Jr.
- The criminal injustice of capital punishment / Stephen Bright
- What's left out of Brown / Sherrilyn Ifill
- The society we want / Michelle Alexander
- A tale of two Americas / Theodore M. Shaw
- The boundaries of whiteness : from Till to Trayvon / Angela Onwuachi-Willig
- Race, violence, and the word / Kenneth W. Mack
- Race, evidence, and police violence: seeking 2020 vision / Jasmine B. Gonzales Rose.