ABSTRACT

This book offers the best and most influential writings of Richard Delgado, one of the founding figures of the critical race theory movement and one of the earliest scholars to address the harms of hate speech. With excerpts from his classic law review articles, conversations with his famous alter ego Rodrigo Crenshaw, and comments on the vicissitudes of academic life, this book spans topics such as hate speech, affirmative action, the war on terror, the endangered status of black men, and the place of Latino/as in the civil rights equation.

part |89 pages

Narrative and Legal Storytelling

chapter |17 pages

Storytelling for Oppositionists and Others

A Plea for Narrative

chapter |14 pages

Rodrigo's Chronicle

chapter |18 pages

Rodrigo's Third Chronicle

Care, Competition, and the Redemptive Tragedy of Race

chapter |17 pages

Rodrigo's Final Chronicle

Cultural Power, the Law Reviews, and the Attack on Narrative Jurisprudence

chapter |21 pages

Rodrigo's Eleventh Chronicle

Empathy and False Empathy

part |73 pages

Critical Theory

chapter |8 pages

The Racial Double Helix

Watson, Crick, and Brown v. Board of Education

chapter |16 pages

Rodrigo's Fourth Chronicle

Neutrality and Stasis in Antidiscrimination Law

chapter |20 pages

Rodrigo's Eighth Chronicle

Black Crime, White Fears—On the Social Construction of Threat

chapter |17 pages

Rodrigo's Ninth Chronicle

Race, Legal Instrumentalism, and the Rule of Law

chapter |10 pages

Linking Arms

Interracial Coalition as an Avenue of Social Reform

part |43 pages

Law, Legal Education, and the Legal Profession

chapter |8 pages

The Imperial Scholar

Reflections on a Review of Civil Rights Literature

chapter |22 pages

Rodrigo's Thirteenth Chronicle

Legal Formalism and Law's Discontents

chapter |11 pages

Official Elitism or Institutional Self-Interest?

Ten Reasons why Law Schools should Abandon the LSAT

part |32 pages

Hate Speech

chapter |6 pages

Words that Wound

A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name-Calling

chapter |8 pages

The “More Speech” Solution

Can Free Expression Remedy Systemic Social Ills?

chapter |9 pages

Campus Antiracism Rules

Constitutional Narratives in Collision

part |42 pages

Law Reform

chapter |10 pages

The Social Construction of Brown v. Board of Education

Law Reform and the Reconstructive Paradox

chapter |4 pages

On Taking Back Our Civil Rights Promises

When Equality doesn't Compute

chapter |21 pages

Rodrigo's Sixth Chronicle

Intersections, Essences, and the Dilemma of Social Reform

part |23 pages

Latinos and Other Nonblack Minorities

chapter |11 pages

Rodrigo's Fifteenth Chronicle

Racial Mixture, Latino-Critical Scholarship, and the Black-White Binary

chapter |10 pages

Derrick Bell's Toolkit

Fit to Dismantle that Famous House?

part |55 pages

Politics and Critique

chapter |5 pages

Shadowboxing

An Essay on Power

chapter |13 pages

Rodrigo's Seventh Chronicle

Race, Democracy, and the State

chapter |11 pages

Rodrigo's Remonstrance

Love and Despair in an Age of Indifference

chapter |18 pages

Rodrigo's Roadmap

Is the Marketplace Theory for Eradicating Discrimination a Blind Alley?

chapter |6 pages

Zero-Based Racial Politics

An Evaluation of Three Best-Case Arguments on Behalf of the Nonwhite Underclass

part |33 pages

Affirmative Action

chapter |10 pages

1998 Hugo L. Black Lecture

Ten Arguments against Affirmative Action—How Valid?

chapter |21 pages

Rodrigo's Tenth Chronicle

Merit and Affirmative Action