Critical Race Theory
The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
The New Press · Print & ebook · May 1, 1996
In the past few years, a new generation of progressive intellectuals has dramatically transformed how law, race, and racial power are understood and discussed in America.
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- Who it’s for
- Layered, classroom-friendly writing that clarifies how the movement took shape.
- Themes
- racial injustice, civil rights, intersectionality
- Pacing
- Reflective
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In the past few years, a new generation of progressive intellectuals has dramatically transformed how law, race, and racial power are understood and discussed in America.
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Questioning the old assumptions of both liberals and conservatives with respect to the goals and the means of traditional civil rights reform, critical race theorists have presented new paradigms for understanding racial injustice and new ways of seeing the links between race, gender, sexual orientation, and class. This reader, edited by the principal founders and leading theoreticians of the critical race theory movement, gathers together for the first time the movement's most important essays.
Why It Clicks
Layered, classroom-friendly writing that clarifies how the movement took shape.
Come here for
- Foundational CRT writings
- Classroom-ready framing of civil rights and Black thought
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- Conceptual density
- Assigned-reading usefulness
Where it sits
| Critical Theory | 39% |
|---|---|
| Race & Ethnic Relations | 35% |
| Civil Rights | 30% |
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Publisher categories
- Law
- Authors
- Kimberle Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller
- Publisher
- The New Press
- Published
- May 1, 1996
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- racial injustice · civil rights · intersectionality
- Reading lane
- Law