The law unbound! A Richard Delgado reader

Richard Delgado

Book - 2007

"Collects the best of Delgado's work. We have identified his most foundational and easily accessible essays and grouped them under eight broad themes. We have edited them to eliminate overlapping material and most footnotes. The reader seeking an unabridged version should consult the acknowledgments, which identifies where they may be found"--Introduction, page x.

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Published
Boulder : Paradigm Publishers [2007]
Language
English
Main Author
Richard Delgado (author)
Physical Description
xii, 431 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-418) and index.
ISBN
9781594512476
9781594512483
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Narrative and Legal Storytelling
  • Storytelling for Oppositionists and Others: A Plea for Narrative
  • Rodrigo's Chronicle
  • Rodrigo's Third Chronicle: Care, Competition, and the Redemptive Tragedy of Race
  • Rodrigo's Final Chronicle: Cultural Power, the Law Reviews, and the Attack on Narrative Jurisprudence
  • Rodrigo's Eleventh Chronicle: Empathy and False Empathy
  • Part II. Critical Theory
  • The Racial Double Helix: Watson, Crick, and Brown v. Board of Education
  • Rodrigo's Fourth Chronicle: Neutrality and Stasis in Antidiscrimination Law
  • Rodrigo's Eighth Chronicle: Black Crime, White Fears-On the Social Construction of Threat
  • Rodrigo's Ninth Chronicle: Race, Legal Instrumentalism, and the Rule of Law
  • Linking Arms: Interracial Coalition as an Avenue of Social Reform
  • Part III. Law, Legal Education, and the Legal Profession
  • The Imperial Scholar: Reflections on a Review of Civil Rights Literature
  • Rodrigo's Thirteenth Chronicle: Legal Formalism and Law's Discontents
  • Official Elitism or Institutional Self-Interest? Ten Reasons Why Law Schools Should Abandon the LSAT
  • Part IV. Hate Speech
  • Words That Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name-Calling
  • The "More Speech" Solution: Can Free Expression Remedy Systemic Social Ills?
  • Campus Antiracism Rules: Constitutional Narratives in Collision
  • Toward a Legal Realist View of the First Amendment
  • Part V. Law Reform
  • The Social Construction of Brown v. Board of Education: Law Reform and the Reconstructive Paradox
  • Joseph Sax, the Public Trust Theory of Environmental Protection, and Some Dark Thoughts on the Possibility of Law Reform
  • On Taking Back Our Civil Rights Promises: When Equality Doesn't Compute
  • Rodrigo's Sixth Chronicle: Intersections, Essences, and the Dilemma of Social Reform
  • Part VI. Latinos and Other Nonblack Minorities
  • Rodrigo's Fifteenth Chronicle: Racial Mixture, Latino-Critical Scholarship, and the Black-White Binary
  • Derrick Bell's Toolkit: Fit to Dismantle That Famous House?
  • Part VII. Politics and Critique
  • Shadowboxing: An Essay on Power
  • Rodrigo's Seventh Chronicle: Race, Democracy, and the State
  • Rodrigo's Remonstrance: Love and Despair in an Age of Indifference
  • Rodrigo's Roadmap: Is the Marketplace Theory for Eradicating Discrimination a Blind Alley?
  • Zero-Based Racial Politics: An Evaluation of Three Best-Case Arguments on Behalf of the Nonwhite Underclass
  • Part VIII. Affirmative Action
  • 1998 Hugo L. Black Lecture: Ten Arguments against Affirmative Action-How Valid?
  • Rodrigo's Tenth Chronicle: Merit and Affirmative Action
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author and Editors