Critical race feminism: a reader

Foreword to the Second Edition / Richard Delgado

Foreword to the First Edition / Derrick Bell

Introduction / Adrien Katherine Wing

Pt. I. Essentialism and Antiessentialism: Ain't I a Woman?

1. Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics / Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

2. Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory / Angela P. Harris

3. Black Women and the Constitution: Finding Our Place, Asserting Our Rights / Judy Scales-Trent

4. Racism, Civil Rights, and Feminism / Kathleen Neal Cleaver

5. Latinas - Everywhere Alien: Culture, Gender, and Sex / Berta Esperanza Hernandez-Truyol

6. Mascaras, Trenzas, y Grenas: Un/masking the Self while Un/braiding Latina Stories and Legal Discourse / Margaret E. Montoya

7. Mrs. Dred Scott / Lea S. Vandervelde and Sandhya L. Subramanian

Pt. II. Outsiders in the Academy and Profession

8. Social History of Everyday Practice: Sadie T. M. Alexander and the Incorporation of Black Women into the American Legal Profession, 1925-1960 / Kenneth W. Mack

9. Tribute to Thurgood Marshall: A Man Who Broke with Tradition on Issues of Race and Gender / Anita F. Hill

10. Of Gentlemen and Role Models / Lani Guinier

11. It Is Batter to Speak / Angela D. Gilmore

12. Failing to Mentor Sapphire: The Actionability of Blocking Black Women from Initiating Mentoring Relationships / Pamela J. Smith

13. Politics of Pedagogy: Confessions of a Black Woman Law Professor / Deborah Waire Post

14. Open Letter to Pierre Schlag / Maria Grahn-Farley

15. Transforming Silence: The Personal, Political, and Pedagogical Prism of Abortion Narrative / Pamela D. Bridgewater

Pt. III. On Mothering or Not

16. Spare Parts, Family Values, Old Children, Cheap / Patricia J. Williams

17. Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and the Right of Privacy / Dorothy E. Roberts

18. Transracial Adoption: Mothers, Hierarchy, Race, and Feminist Legal Theory / Twila L. Perry

19. Polygamy in Black America / Adrien Katherine Wing

Pt. IV. Criminality

20. Against Drug Use / Anita L. Allen

21. At the Intersection of Injustice: Experiences of African American Women in Crime and Sentencing / Paula C. Johnson

22. Rosa Lopez, Christopher Darden, and Me: Issues of Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in Evaluating Witness Credibility / Maria L. Ontiveros

23. Gender, Race, and Mental Illness: The Case of Wanda Jean Allen / Michele Goodwin

24. Erasing Race? A Critical Race Feminist View of Internet Identity Shifting / Margaret Chon

25. Male Fraud / Lisa C. Ikemoto

Pt. V. Domestic Violence

26. Mules, Madonnas, Babies, Bathwater, Racial Imagery, and Stereotypes: The African-American Woman and the Battered Woman Syndrome / Linda L. Ammons

27. Availability of Domestic Violence Services for Latina Survivors in New York State: Preliminary Report / Jenny Rivera

28. Domestic Violence and Tribal Protection of Indigenous Women in the United States / Gloria Valencia-Weber and Christine P. Zuni

29. Enhancing Autonomy for Battered Women: Lessons from Navajo Peacemaking / Donna Coker

Pt. VI. Working

30. Sapphire Bound! / Regina Austin

31. Hair Piece: Perspectives on the Intersection of Race and Gender / Paulette M. Caldwell

32. Fifth Black Woman / Devon W. Carbado and Mitu Gulati

33. Toward a Global Critical Feminist Vision: Domestic Work and the Nanny Tax Debate / Taunya Lovell Banks

34. Race, Class, and Gender Essentialism in Tax Literature: The Joint Return / Dorothy A. Brown

35. Converging Stereotypes in Racialized Sexual Harassment: Where the Model Minority Meets Suzie Wong / Sumi K. Cho

36. Race, Gender, and Social Class in the Thomas Sexual Harassment Hearings: The Hidden Fault Lines in Political Discourse / Emma Coleman Jordan

Pt. VII. On the Borders

37. Muslim Women's Rights in the Global Village: Challenges and Opportunities / Azizah Yahia al-Hibri

38. Public Benefits and Immigration: The Intersection of Immigration Status, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class / Kevin R. Johnson

39. Feminism versus Multiculturalism / Leti Volpp

40. Voices from the Barbed Wires of Despair: Women in the Maquiladoras, Latina Critical Legal Theory, and Gender at the U.S.-Mexico Border / Elvia R. Arriola.