Kimberlé Crenshaw
Author of Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
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Works by Kimberlé Crenshaw
Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement (1995) — Editor; Contributor — 370 copies
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color 10 copies
Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities That the Twin Pandemics Lay Bare (2022) — Editor — 2 copies
Associated Works
Race-ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality (1992) — Contributor — 325 copies
Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Case (1997) — Contributor — 70 copies
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- Crenshaw, Kimberlé
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- Cornell University (BA), Harvard University (JD), University of Wisconsin (LLM)
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- law professor
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- University of California, Los Angeles
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Whole lot of heavy hitters here. Generally, we are proceeding from a "Deconstructivist" Critical Legal Studies to an "Interventionist" theory (which might be called "Critical Race Theory," though not necessarily), on the basis of a materialist legal scholarship which makes explicit the tension between Plaintiff and Counsel, and also tensions between the Subaltern non-Plaintiff and the at-present edifice of the Juridical System.
Early Sections: good, technical pieces by Derrick A Bell Jr. (introduction on interests of legal orgs vs plaintiffs in school integration cases with a taste of aporia) also has an excellent piece on "racial realism" (vs legal formalism) in part IV ("Reflections on Justice Thomas"); Alan David Freeman (inventive); Kimberlé Crenshaw (clear-sighted sangfroid). Also contains the some polemical essais, such as Gary Peller's fraught embrace of black nationalism as a means-to-an-end (against integration-ism).
Later Sections: Duncan Kennedy demonstrating strong fundamentals and humor in, "A Pluralist Case for Affirmative Action." Gerald Torres and Kathryn Milun doing a good exegesis in: "Translating 'Yonnondio' by Precedent and Evidence: The Mashpee Indian Case" (--> "The baked and the half-baked.") Charles R Lawrence III's Approach from Psychoanalysis in, "The Id, the Ego, and Equal Protection," requires an anatomy of the subaltern undercurrents of racial animus very difficult if not impossible to pull off, and also possibly dangerous in that it can be used against itself, but also one of the rare conceivable means of advancement against an immovable object. Cheryl I. Harris: finally the fabled text on, "Whiteness as Property" (i.e. whiteness as a category of inalienable property (e.g. the degree of Juris Doctor) legitimated by a corresponding institutional recognition/reputation).
On deconstructed dichotomies, "Rights Talk," and turning the empty promise against itself. Kimberlé Crenshaw on Mark Tushnet:
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