Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement [Paperback]

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. 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.

Kimberlé Crenshawis a professor of law at UCLA and Columbia School of Law in New York.Neil Gotandais a professor of law at Western State University College of Law in Fullerton, California.Gary Pelleris a professor of law at Georgetown Law Center in Washington, D.C.Kendall Thomasis a professor of law at Columbia School of Law in New York.

As of the publication ofCritical Race Theoryit will be unwise, if not impossible, to do any serious work on race without referencing this splendid collection.
—Toni Morrison

A fundamental reference guide to any serious work on race.
—Amsterdam News

Critical Race Theoryis a compilation of provocative writings that challenges us to consider the relationship between race, the legal system, and society at large.
—Senator Bill Bradley