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CRITICAL AMERICA SERIES

The CRITICAL AMERICA SERIES has provided cutting edge research and groundbreaking thinking on Critical Race and Law in America since its inception in 1995.

 

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Aftermath
The Clinton Impeachment and the Presidency in the Age of Political Spectacle
Edited by Leonard V. Kaplan and Beverly I. Moran

Alienated
Immigrant Rights, the Constitution, and Equality in America
Victor Romero

America's Colony
The Political and Cultural Conflict between the United States and Puerto Rico
Pedro A. Malavet

Black and Brown in America
The Case for Cooperation
Bill Piatt

Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality
A Critical Reader
Edited by Devon Carbado

Black Rage Confronts the Law
Paul Harris

Changing Race
Latinos, the Census and the History of Ethnicity
Clara Rodriguez

Critical Race Feminism 2nd Edition
A Reader
Edited by Adrien Katherine Wing

Critical Race Narratives
A Study of Race, Rhetoric and Injury
Carl Gutierrez-Jones

Critical Race Theory
An Introduction
Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic

Cultivating Intelligence
Power, Law, and the Politics of Teaching
Louise Harmon, Deborah W. Post

Destructive Messages
How Hate Speech Paves the Way For Harmful Social Movements
Alexander Tsesis

The Disability Pendulum
The First Decade of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Ruth Colker

Discrimination by Default
How Racism Becomes Routine
Lu-in Wang

Disoriented
Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation State
Robert S. Chang

Does the Law Morally Bind the Poor?
Or What Good's the Constitution When You Can't Buy a Loaf of Bread?
R. George Wright

Elusive Citizenship
Immigration, Asian Americans, and the Paradox of Civil Rights
John S.W. Park

The Emergence of Mexican America
Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in U.S. Culture
John-Michael Rivera

Feminist Legal Theory
A Primer
Nancy Levit and Robert R.M. Verchick

From the Ground Up
Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement
Luke Cole and Sheila Foster

Getting Over Equality
A Critical Diagnosis of Religious Freedom in America
Steven D. Smith

Global Critical Race Feminism
An International Reader
Edited by Adrien Katherine Wing

Greasers and Gringos
Latinos, Law, and the American Imagination
Steven W. Bender

Heretics in the Temple
Americans Who Reject the Nation's Legal Faith
David Ray Papke

How the Left Can Win Arguments and Influence People
A Tactical Manual for Pragmatic Progressives
John K. Wilson

Hybrid
Bisexuals, Multiracials, and Other Misfits Under American Law
Ruth Colker

Immigrants Out!
The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States
Edited by Juan F. Perea

Interracial Justice
Conflict and Reconciliation in Post–Civil Rights America
Eric K. Yamamoto

Law's Empathy
Dubber

Law and Class in America
Trends Since the Cold War
Edited by Paul D. Carrington and Trina Jones

Law and Religion
A Critical Anthology
Edited by Stephen M. Feldman

Lawyers' Ethics and the Pursuit of Social Justice
A Critical Reader
Edited by Susan D. Carle

Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy
A Polemic Against the System
Duncan Kennedy

Mixed Race America and the Law
A Reader
Edited by Kevin R. Johnson

Moral Imperialism
A Critical Anthology
Edited by Berta Hernandez-Truyol

Murder and the Reasonable Man
Passion and Fear in the Criminal Courtroom
Cynthia K. Lee

Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism
The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America
Jody David Armour

No Seat at the Table
How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of the Boardroom
Douglas M. Branson

Notes of a Racial Caste Baby
Color Blindness and the End of Affirmative Action
Bryan K. Fair

Nothing but the Truth
Why Trial Lawyers Don't,Can't,and Shouldn't Have to Tell the Whole Truth
Steven Lubet

Opening the Floodgates
Why America Needs to Rethink its Borders and Immigration Laws
Kevin R. Johnson

Original Sin
Clarence Thomas and the Failure of the Constitutional Conservatives
Samuel A. Marcosson

Playing it Safe
How the Supreme Court Sidesteps Hard Cases and Stunts the Development of Law
Lisa A. Kloppenberg

Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas
A Critical History of the Separation of Church and State
Edited by Stephen M. Feldman

Policing Hatred
Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, and Hate Crime
Jeannine Bell

Privilege Revealed
How Invisible Preference Undermines America
Stephanie M. Wildman

Rape and the Culture of the Courtroom
Andrew E. Taslitz

Rethinking Commodification
Cases and Readings in Law and Culture
Edited by Martha M. Ertman and Joan C. Williams

Saving Our Children from the First Amendment
Kevin Saunders

Science for Segregation
Race, Law, and the Case Against Brown v. Board of Education
John P. Jackson, Jr.

Selling Words
Free Speech in a Commercial Culture
R. George Wright

Social Scientists for Social Justice
Making the Case against Segregation
John P. Jackson Jr.

Success without Victory
Lost Legal Battles and the Long Road to Justice in America
Jules Lobel

Taxing America
Edited by Karen B. Brown, Mary Louise Fellows

The Color of Crime
Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harrassment, and Other Macroaggressions
Katheryn K. Russell

The Derrick Bell Reader
Edited by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic

The Disability Pendulum
The First Decade of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Ruth Colker

The Emergence of Mexican America
Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in U.S. Culture
John-Michael Rivera

The Empire Strikes Back
Outsiders and the Struggle over Legal Education
Arthur Austin

The First Amendment in Cross-Cultural Perspective
A Comparative Legal Analysis of the Freedom of Speech
Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr.

The Gender Line
Men, Women, and the Law
Nancy Levit

The Passions of Law
Edited by Susan A. Bandes

The Silicon Valley of Dreams
Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy
David Naguib Pellow and Lisa Sun-Hee Park

The Smart Culture
Society, Intelligence, and Law
Robert L. Hayman Jr.

To Be An American
Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation
Bill Ong Hing

Truth, Autonomy, and Speech
Feminist Theory and the First Amendment
Susan H. Williams

Victims in the War on Crime
The Use and Abuse of Victims' Rights
Markus Dirk Dubber

Was Blind, But Now I See
White Race Concsiousness and the Law
Barbara J. Flagg

When Sorry Isn't Enough
The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice
Edited by Roy L. Brooks

White by Law
The Legal Construction of Race
Ian F. Haney Lopez

White by Law - 2nd Ed.
Ian F. Haney Lopez

Why Lawsuits are Good for America
Disciplined Democracy, Big Business, and the Common Law
Carl T. Bogus

forthcoming:

Whitewashed
Race, Law, and the War on Terrorism
John Tehranian

Chicano Students and the Courts
The Mexican American Legal Struggle for Educational Equality
Richard R. Valencia