In the past few years, a new generation of progressive intellectuals has dramatically transformed how law, race, and racial power are understood and discussed in America. Questioning the old assumptions of both liberals and conservatives with respect to the goals and the means of traditional civil rights reform, critical race theorists have presented new paradigms for understanding racial injustice and new ways of seeing the links between race, gender, sexual orientation, and class. This reader, edited by the principal founders and leading theoreticians of the critical race theory movement, gathers together for the first time the movement's most important essays.
Kimberlé Crenshaw is Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a professor of law at Columbia Law School. She is a co-editor (with Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, and Kendall Thomas) of Critical Race Theory, available from The New Press.
Neil Gotanda is a professor of law at Western State College of Law in Fullerton, California.
Gary Peller is a professor of law at Georgetown Law in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Critical Race Consciousness.
Kendall Thomas is Nash Professor of Law and the director for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia Law School.