Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory

Foreword: Who Are We? And Why Are We Here? Doing Critical Race Theory in Hard Times --Charles R. Lawrence III Introduction: Battles Waged, Won, and Lost: Critical Race Theory at the Turn of the Millennium --Francisco Valdes, Jerome McCristal Culp, and Angela P. Harris Part I: Histories 1. The First Decade: Critical Reflections, or A Foot In the Closing Door --Kimberle Williams Crenshaw 2. Historicizing Critical Race Theory's Cutting Edge: Key Movements that Performed the Theory --Sumi Cho and Robert Westley 3. Keeping It Real: On Anti-Essentialism --Catharine A. MacKinnon Part II: Crossroads Section A: Race Critiquing Race' and Its Uses: Critical Race Theory's Uncompleted Argument --Robert S. Chang 4. The Poetics of Colorlined Space --Anthony Paul Farley 5. Un-Natural Things: Constructions of Race, Gender, and Disability --Robert L. Hayman, Jr., and Nancy Levit 6. Race and the Immigration Laws: The Need for Critical Inquiry --Kevin R. Johnson 7. Simple Logic: Race, the Identity Documents Rule, and the Story of a Nation Besieged and Betrayed --Sherene H. Razack 8. Straight Out of the Closet: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation --Devon W. Carbado Section B: Narrativity Celebrating Racialized Legal Narratives --Margaret E. Montoya 9. The Unbearable Whiteness of Being --Thomas Ross 10. Construction Project: Color Me Queer + Color Me Family = Camilo's Story --Victoria Ortiz and Jennifer Elrod 11. On Being Homeless: One Aboriginal Woman's Conquest of Canadian Universities --1989-98 --Patricia Monture-Angus 12. Dinner and Self-Determination --Henry J. Richardson III Section C: Globalization Critical Race Theory in Global Context --Celina Romany 13. Global Markets, Racial Spaces, and the Role of Critical Race Theory in the Struggle for Community Control of Investments: An Institutional Class Analysis --Elizabeth M. Iglesias 14. Global Feminism at the Local Level: The Criminalization of Female Genital Surgeries --Isabelle R. Gunning 15. Breaking Cycles of Inequality: Critical Theory, Human Rights, and Family In/Justice --Berta Esperanza Hermandez-Truyol 16. Critical Race Theory and Post-Colonial Development --Enrique R. Carrasco Part III: Directions 17. Critical Coalitions: Theory and Praxis --Julie A. Su and Eric Y. Yamamoto 18. Beyond, and Not Beyond, Black and White: Deconstruction has a Politics --Mari Matsuda 19. Outsider Scholars, Critical Race Theory, and Outcrit Perspectivity: Postsubordination Vision as Jurisprudential Method --Francisco Valdes Afterword: The Handmaid's Truth --Derrick A. Bell About the Contributors