Critical Race Theory

The founders of the critical race movement have collaborated to edit this collection of important writings on the subject. Included in the essays are "Whiteness as Property" by Cheryl Harris, "Race Consciousness" by Garry Peller and "Race, Reform and Retrenchment" by Kimberle Crenshaw. 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.