Fall Readers
For those of you interested in learning more about Critical Race Theory, there is a new anthology out. The Law Unbound: A Richard Delgado Reader was edited by Jean Stefancic and yours truly from Paradigm Press. The cover is now featured on the left hand side of this webpage. Some of you may have noted that Richard, who is University Distinguished Professor and Derrick Bell Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, is a co-blogger on this site, doing the “Dear Mom” column. Richard is one of the most prolific scholars in the legal academy and one of the forefathers of Critical Race Theory. The 30 selections cover the following topics: narrative and legal storytelling; critical theory: law, legal education, and the legal profession; hate speech; law reform; Latinos and other nonblack minorities; politics and critique; and affirmative action. The bibliography includes 19 books and annotations on 148 articles published over 30 years.
If you pair this book with The Derrick Bell Reader, edited by Richard and Jean from NYU Press in 2005, you will have insights into two of the most senior and most prolific voices in Critical Race Theory.
For a multidisciplinary anthology from an important new voice in critical theory, see Progressive Black Masculinities by State University of New York at Buffalo Law School associate professor Athena Mutua from Routledge Press. The 15 selections include famous black feminists like Patricia Hill Collins and Beverly Guy-Sheftall along with well-known legal scholars such as Elizabeth Iglesias, John Calmore and Stefanie Phillips. The voices posit that the greatest peril to black men may be limited notions of manhood.
This latter reader is a great companion to UCLA professor Devon Carbado’s Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality, published by NYU Press in 1999.
