Bøker av Richard Delgado

"Critical Race Theory is essential for understanding developments in this burgeoning field, which has spread to other disciplines and countries. The new edition also covers the ways in which other societies and disciplines adapt its teachings and, for readers wanting to advance a progressive race agenda, includes new questions for discussion, aimed at outlining practical steps to achieve this objective"--

Ranging from the legal and social construction of race, ethnicity, and gender, to language, education, immigration, stereotyping, workplace discrimination, and rebellious lawyering, this new edition highlights the Spanish colonization of Latin America to provide further context for the subsequent colonial treatment of its people and leaders.

Discusses the American racial scene, touching on such issues as the role of minorities in an age of global markets and competition, the black left, the rise of the black right, black crime, feminism, law reform, and the economics of racial discrimination.

This book offers the best and most influential writings of Richard Delgado, one of the founding figures of the critical race theory movement.

What explains the electoral success of Republicans, particularly of the ascendant neoconservatives who now dominate the Party? Based on an examination of the New Right, this work proposes some answers, including globalization, different technologies, and a network of right-wing think tanks and foundations.

Offers a broad portrait of Latino/a life in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century

How will efforts to eradicate racism, sexism, and xenophobia be affected by the measures our government takes in the name of protecting its citizens? This title addresses these problems.

Focusing on the issues of hate-speech and pornography, this book examines the efforts of reformers to oblige society and law to take account of such harms. It argues for a system of free speech which takes into account nuance, context-sensitivity, and competing values such as human dignity and equal protection of the law.

The professional discontent of lawyers in contemporary society is introduced via an account of the long friendship of Ezra Pound and Archibald MacLeish; then the authors suggest how critical legal theory might advance both legal thinking and the impoverished intellectual/ creative lives of lawyers.

For well over a decade, critical race theory - the school of thought that holds that race lies at the very nexus of American life. In recent years, however, the fundamental principles of the movement have influenced other academic disciplines, from sociology and politics to ethnic studies and history. This book outlines its basic parameters.

This volume explores issues presented by hate speech, including legal theories for regulating it, the harms it causes, and policy arguments pro and con suppressing it. Chapters analyze hate speech on campus, the history of hate speech in America, the careers of particular words, hate speech against whites, and the special case of children.

Legal obstacles to racial equality have long been removed, we are told, so what's the problem? And yet, the plight of the urban poor grows worse. The number of young black men in prison continues to exceed those in college. Informal racial privilege remains entrenched and systemic. This title explores merit and affirmative action.

Condemns accepting whiteness as the norm. This book presents works from sociology, law, history, cultural studies, and literature.

This volume explores issues presented by hate speech, including legal theories for regulating it, the harms it causes, and policy arguments pro and con suppressing it. Chapters analyze hate speech on campus, the history of hate speech in America, the careers of particular words, hate speech against whites, and the special case of children.