Fresh Takes on Law, IQ and Race
New Scholarly Books
Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory
Francisco Valdes, Jerome McCristal Culp and Angela P. Harris, eds.
Temple University Press, 2002, 528 pp., $79.50 cloth, $29.95 paper
ISBN 1-56639-929-7 (cloth)
ISBN 1-56639-930-0 (paper)
When the eminent legal scholar Derrick Bell left Harvard Law School in 1992, worn down by the school’s refusal to hire faculty of color and its rejection of his attempts to infuse race into the study of constitutional law, few suspected that his departure would spark a movement. The movement is known as “critical race theory,” dedicated to no less a proposition than that of transforming the legal community’s understanding of race and the law.
