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Derrick Bell and Critical Race Theory

In 1971, Derrick Bell (November 6, 1930-October 5, 2011) was the first Black professor to gain tenure at Harvard Law School. Called the “Godfather of Critical Race Theory” he was the most prominent exponent; other founding scholars: Alan Freeman, Kimberle Crenshaw, Richard Delgado, Cheryl Harris, Charles Lawrence, Mari Matsuda, and Patricia Williams.

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  • Silent Covenants

    Brown V. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform

    Bell, Derrick, 1930-2011
    BookOxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. — KF4155.B38 2004
  • And We Are Not Saved

    the Elusvie Quest for Racial Justice

    Bell, Derrick, 1930-2011
    Recommended by Brown University
    BookNew York : Basic Books, c1987. — E185.615.B39 1987
  • The New Jim Crow

    Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

    Alexander, Michelle
    Recommended by Brown University
    PaperbackNew York : New Press, c2012. — HV9950.A437 2012
  • Recommended by Brown University
    PaperbackNew York : New York University Press, [2017] — KF4755.D454 2017
  • When Equality Ends

    Stories About Race and Resistance

    Delgado, Richard
    BookBoulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999. — E185.615.D453 1999
  • The Rodrigo Chronicles

    Conversations About America and Race

    Delgado, Richard
    BookNew York : New York University Press, c1995. — E185.615.D45 1995
  • We Won't Go Back

    Making the Case for Affirmative Action

    Lawrence, Charles, 1943-
    BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin, 1997. — HF5549.5.A34L38 1997
  • Cold War Civil Rights

    Race and the Image of American Democracy

    Dudziak, Mary L., 1956-
    BookPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2000. — E185.61.D85 2000
  • White by Law

    the Legal Construction of Race

    Haney-López, Ian
    BookNew York : New York University Press, c2006. — KF4755.H36 2006
  • PaperbackNew York : New York University Press, c2003. — HQ1154.C75 2003
  • Knowledge Justice

    Disrupting Library and Information Studies Through Critical Race Theory

    PaperbackCambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021] — Z682.4.M56K58 2021
  • How "Indians" Think

    Colonial Indigenous Intellectuals and the Question of Critical Race Theory

    Lamana, Gonzalo, 1966-
    PaperbackTucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2019] — F2230.1.I58L36 2019
  • BookAmherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books, 1999. — HT1521.R3414 1999