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Resources on Critical Race Theory

The collection below represents the key readings in Critical Race Theory. When purchasing the books, please consider doing so from your nearest Black-owned bookstore, which you can find here.

Selected Books

Derrick Bell:

Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, & Kendall Thomas: Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement.

Kimberlé Crenshaw, Richard Delgado, Charles R. Lawrence III, & Mari J. Matsuda: Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, And The First Amendment.

Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic: Critical Race Theory (Third Edition): An Introduction.

Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic: Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge.

Adrienne D. Dixson & Marvin Lynn (editors): Handbook of Critical Race Theory in Education.

David Gillborn, Gloria Ladson-Billings, & Edward Taylor (editors): Foundations of Critical Race Theory in Education.

Lani Guinier & Gerald Torres: The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy.

Angela Harris, Jerome McCristal Culp, & Francisco Valdes, (editors): Crossroads, Directions and A New Critical Race Theory.

Ian Haney López: White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race.

Victor Ray: On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care.

Patricia J. Williams:

Adrien Katherine Wing:

Selected Articles

Derrick Bell:

Devon W. Carbado & Mitu Gulati: The Law and Economics of Critical Race Theory.

Kimberli Williams Crenshaw:

Devon W. Carbado: Critical What What?

Devon W. Carbado & Cheryl Harris: Intersectionality at 30: Mapping the Margins of Anti-Essentialism, Intersectionality, and Dominance Theory.

Alan Freeman: Legitimizing Racial Discrimination Through Antidiscrimination Law.

Neil Gotanda: A Critique of ‘Our Constitution is Color-Blind.

Angela Harris: The Jurisprudence of Reconstruction.

Cheryl Harris:

Darren Lenard Hutchinson: Gay Rights for Gay Whites: Race, Sexual Identity, and Equal Protection Discourse.

Jerry Kang: Trojan Horses of Race.

Duncan Kennedy: A Cultural Pluralist Case for Affirmative Action in Legal Academia.

Gloria Ladson-Billings & William F. Tate: Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education.

Charles R. Lawrence III: The Id, the Ego, and Equal Protection: Reckoning with Unconscious Racism.

Ian Haney López:

Brad Mason:

Mari Matsuda: We Will Not Be Used: Are Asian-Americans the Racial Bourgeoisie?

Margaret E. Montoya: Mascaras y Trenzas: Reflexiones. Un Proyecto de Identidad y Analysis a Traves de Veinte Anos (Masks and Braids: Reflections, A Project on Identity and Analysis Over Twenty Years).

Gary Peller:

Vijay Prashad: Anti-­D’Souza: The Ends of Racism and the Asian American.

Margaret M. Russell: Lesbian, Gay And Bisexual Rights and “The Civil Rights Agenda”.

Mark Tushnet: An Essay on Rights.

Robert A. Williams Jr.: