Book
Critical race theory : the key writings that formed the movement
Publication Information
New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., ©1995.
Physical Description
xxxii, 494 pages ; 26 cm
Summary
Smoke and Mirrors is a passionate, richly nuanced work that shows television as a circus, a wishing well, and a cure for loneliness. Ranging from Ed Sullivan to cyberspace, from kid shows to cable, and from the cheap thrills of "action adventure" to the solemn boredom of PBS pledge week, Leonard argues for a whole new way of thinking about television. For Leonard, the situation comedy is a socializing agency, the talk show is a legitimating agency, the made-for-television movie is the last redoubt of social conscience, and television criticism itself is the last refuge of time-serving thugs and postmodernists. Instead of scapegoating television as the cause of crime in our streets, stupidity in our schools, and spectacle rather than substance in our government, Leonard sees something else inside the box: an echo chamber and a feedback loop, a medium neither wholly innocent of nor entirely responsible for the frantic disorder it brings into our homes.
Contents
- Serving two masters : integration ideals and client interests in school desegregation litigation / Derrick A. Bell, Jr.
- Brown v. Board of Education and the interest convergence dilemma / Derrick A. Bell, Jr.-- Legitimizing racial discrimination through antidiscrimination law : a critical review of Supreme Court doctrine / Alan David Freeman
- The imperial scholar : reflections on a review of civil rights literature / Richard Delgado
- Looking to the bottom : critical legal studies and reparations / Mars Matsuda.
- (cont.) The clouded prism : minority critique of the critical legal studies movement / Harlon L. Dalton
- Beyond critical legal studies : the reconstructive theology of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. / Anthony E. Cook
- Race, reform, and retrenchment : transformation and legitimation in antidiscrimination law / Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
- Race-consciousness / Gary Peller
- A cultural pluralist case for affirmative action in legal academia / Duncan Kennedy
- Translating "Yonnondio" by precedent and evidence : the Mashpee Indian case / Gerald Torres, Kathryn Milun.
- (cont.) Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. FCC : regrouping in singular times / Patricia J. Williams
- Groups, representation, and race-conscious districting : a case of the emperor's clothes / Lani Guinier
- The id, the ego, and equal protection : reckoning with unconscious racism / Charles R. Lawrence, III
- A critique of "our constitution is color-blind" / Neil Gotanda
- Whiteness as property / Cheryl I. Harris
- Race in the twenty-first century : equality through law? / Linda Greene
- Racial realism / Derrick A. Bell, Jr.
- Critical race theory, Archie Shepp, and fire music : securing an authentic intellectual life in a multicultural world / John O. Calmore.
- (cont.) Two life stories : reflections of one black woman law professor / Taunya Lovell Banks
- The word and the river : pedagogy as scholarship as struggle / Charles R. Lawrence, III
- Mapping the margins : intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color / Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
- Punishing drug addicts who have babies : women of color, equality, and the right of privacy / Dorothy E. Roberts
- Sapphire bound! / Regina Austin
- Navigating the topology of race / Jayne Chong-Soon Lee
- The boundaries of race : political geography in legal analysis / Richard Thomson Ford
- Rouge et noir reread : a popular constitutional history of the Angelo Herndon case / Kendall Thomas.