Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Part One: Critical Race Theory in Education

1. Just What Is Critical Race Theory and What’s It Doing in a Nice Field Like Education? Gloria Ladson-Billings

2. Who’s Afraid of Critical Race Theory? Derrick Bell

3. Education Policy as an Act of White Supremacy: Whiteness, Critical Race Theory, and Education Reform, David Gillborn

Part Two: History and evolution

4. Brown v. Board of Education and the Interest Convergence Dilemma, Derrick Bell

5. Desegregation as a Cold War Imperative, Mary L. Dudziak

Part Three: Affirmative Action

6. The "We’ve Done Enough" Theory of School Desegration, Mark v. Tushnet

7. Affirmative Action as a Majoritarian Device: Or, Do You Really Want to Be a Role Model? Richard Delgado

8. Critical Race Theory and Interest Convergence in the Backlash Against Affirmative Action: Washington State and Initiative 200, Edward Taylor

Part Four: Critical Race Research Methology in Education

9. Critical Race Methodology: Counter Story-Telling as an Analytical Framework for Educational Research, Daniel G. Solorzano and Tara J. Yosso

10. What’s Race Got to Do With It? Critical Race Theory’s Conflicts With and Connections to Qualitative Research Methodology and Epistemology, Lawrence Parker and Marvin Lynn

Part Five: Race in the Classroom

11. A Threat in the Air: How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identity and Performance, Claude M. Steele

12. Peer Networks of African American Students in Independent Schools: Affirming Academic Success and Racial Identity, Amanda Datnow and Robert Cooper

Part Six: Intersections: Gender, Class, and Culture

13. Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color, Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

14. Ain’t I a Woman? Revisiting Intersectionality, Avtar Brah and Ann Phoenix

Part Seven: Intersections: White Supremacy and White Allies

15. The Color of Supremacy: Beyond the Discourse of ‘White Privilege’, Zeus Leonardo

16. Teaching White Students About Racism: The Search for Whites Allies and the Restoration of Hope, Beverly Daniel Tatum

Part Eight: Critiques of Critical Race Theory

17. Some Critical Thoughts on Critical Race Theory, Douglas E. Litowitz

18. Telling Stories Out of school: An Essay on Legal Narratives, Daniel A. Farber and Suzanna Sherry

19. On Telling Stores in School: A Reply to Farber and Sherry, Richard Delgado