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" – Kimberlé 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
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