Race, rights, and redemption : the Derrick Bell lectures on the law and critical race theory

Bell, Janet Dewart, (editor.). Southerland, Vincent M., (editor.). Lee, Barbara, 1946- (writer of introduction.).

Summary: "Race, Rights, and Redemption (which was originally published in hardcover under the title Carving Out a Humanity) gathers some of our country’s brightest progressive legal stars in a volume that illuminates facets of the law that have continued to perpetuate racial inequality and to confound our nation at the start of a new millennium."--

Record details

ISBN: 1620977346
ISBN: 9781620977347
Physical Description: xi, 392 pages ; 23 cm
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Edition: Paperback edition.
Publisher: New York ; London : The New Press, 2021.
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

General Note:

Originally published as: Carving out a humanity. 2020.

Introduction by Congresswoman Barbara Lee.

Formatted Contents Note:

No justice, no peace / Charles Ogletree -- Each other's harvest / Charles Lawrence -- The archetypes that haunt us / Patricia J. Williams -- Derrick Bell's toolkit-fit to dismantle that famous house? / Richard Delgado -- Enlisting race, resisting power, transforming democracy / Lani Guinier -- Accountability for private life / Anita Allen -- Somebody else's child / Mari Matsuda -- From the West to the rest : interest convergence in California racial politics / Cheryl I. Harris -- Envisioning abolition : sex, citizenship, and the racial imaginary of the killing state / Kendall Thomas -- And we are still not saved : twenty-first-century Constitutional conflicts / Derrick Bell -- Racism as the ultimate deception / John Calmore (lecture delivered by Derrick Bell) -- Like a loaded weapon / Robert A. Williams -- A hip-hop theory of justice / Paul Butler -- Between slavery and freedom: the deep racial roots of the 2008 financial crisis / Emma Coleman Jordan -- After Obama : three "post-racial" challenges / Devon W. Carbado -- Justice undone : color blindness after civil rights / Ian Haney López -- Critiquing the family tree : white supremacy in the writing of history / Annette Gordon-Reed -- Badges and incidents : lingering vestiges of slavery in the Thirteenth Amendment / William Carter Jr. -- The criminal injustice of capital punishment / Stephen Bright -- What's left out of Brown / Sherrilyn Ifill -- The society we want / Michelle Alexander -- A tale of two Americas / Theodore M. Shaw -- The boundaries of whiteness : from Till to Trayvon / Angela Onwuachi-Willig -- Race, violence, and the word / Kenneth W. Mack -- Race, evidence, and police violence: seeking 2020 vision / Jasmine B. Gonzales Rose.