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Saturday, October 08, 2011

READING LIST FOR TUPOCC DISCUSSION GROUP AT 2011 NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD CONVENTION IN PHILADELPHIA, PA.

READING LIST FOR TUPOCC DISCUSSION GROUP AT 2011 NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD CONVENTION IN PHILADELPHIA, PA.

TUPOCC Alabama Manifesto

Marc-Tizoc Gonzalez, “Critical Concepts of Race Privilege”

Andrea Smith, “Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing” in Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology (Incite! Women of Color Against Violence eds., South End Press 2006)

Julie A. Su and Eric K. Yamamoto, “Critical Coalitions: Theory and Praxis” in Crossroads, Directions and a New Critical Race Theory (Francisco Valdes, Jerome McCristal Culp, and Angela P. Harris eds., Temple University Press 2002)

Francisco Valdes, “Outsider Scholars, Critical Race Theory, and 'Outcrit' Perspectivity: Postsubordination Vision as Jurisprudential Method” in Crossroads, Directions and a New Critical Race Theory (Francisco Valdes, Jerome McCristal Culp, and Angela P. Harris eds., Temple University Press 2002) [redacted]

Mari Matsuda, “Chapter 7: Standing Beside My Sister, Facing the Enemy” from Where is Your Body (Beacon Press, 1996)

FURTHER READING BY THEME

We thought we'd make available to you this list of the other articles we considered for discussion; and for your convenience, we grouped them by theme. It by no means represents a definitive reading list on the themes listed.

Racial Formation/Theories of Race

Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the U.S. (1986)

Ian Haney López, White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race (NYU Press 1996)

Ian Haney Lopez, "The Social Construction of Race" 29 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 1 (1994)

Cheryl Harris, “Whiteness as Property,” 106 Harv. L. Rev. 1709 (1993)

Devon W. Carbado and Mitu Gulati, “The Fifth Black Woman”, 11 J. Contemp. Legal Issues 701 (2001)

Devon W. Carbado and Mitu Gulati, “Working Identity”, 85 Cornell L. Rev. 1259 (2000)

Intersectionality, Multidimensional Analysis, Coalitions

Lisa Kahaleole Hall, "Compromising Positions" in Beyond a Dream Deferred: Multicultural Education and the Politics of Excellence (Becky W Thompson and Sangeeta Tyagi eds., 1993)

Herb Green, "Turning the Myths of Black Masculinity Inside/Out" in Names We Call Home: Autobiography on Racial Identity (Becky Thompson and Sangeeta Tyagi eds., 1996)

Kimberle Crenshaw, "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics" 1989 U. Chi. Legal F. 139 (1989)

Adrien Wing, "Brief Reflections towards a Multiplicative Theory and Praxis of Being, in Critical Race Feminism: A Reader 27 (Adrien Wing ed., NYU Press, 1997)

Francisco Valdes, Queers, Sissies, Dykes and Tomboys: Deconstructing the Conflation of "Sex," "Gender" and "Sexual Orientation" in Euro-American Law and Society, 83 Cal. L. Rev. 1 (1995)

Francisco Valdes, "Legal Reform and Social Justice: An Introduction to LatCrit Theory, Praxis and Community" (2003), available at http://www.latcrit.org/latcrit/publications/monographs/lcfvenglish.pdf

Role of Lawyers, Legal Activists, and Academics

Sumi Cho & Robert Westley, “Historicizing Critical Race Theory’s Cutting Edge: Key Movements that Performed the Theory”, in Crossroads, Directions and a New Critical Race Theory 32 (Francisco Valdes, et al. eds., 2002)

Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller & Kendall Thomas, Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement (New Press 1996)

Mari Matsuda, "Looking to the Bottom: Critical Legal Studies and Reparations" 22 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 323 (1987)

Richard Delgado, "The Imperial Scholar: Reflections on a Review of Civil Rights Literature" 132 U. Pa. L. Rev. 561 (1984)

Derrick A. Bell, Jr., "Serving Two Masters: Integration Ideals and Client Interests in School Desegregation Litigation" 85 Yale L. J. 470 (1976)

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