Critical Race Feminism: A Reader, edited by Adrien Katherine Wing.

Here are 40+ readings from  the classic anthology of writings on the legal status and lived experiences of women of color, Critical Race Feminism: A Reader, edited by Adrien Katherine Wing. I have also added several readings from other sources.

DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. WE WILL DISCUSS THIS IN CLASS

Each student must select ONE of the following articles and write a critical review using the extra credit guidelines found in Week 1 on the syllabus.  This critique should be about 4-6 pages in length and will be shared with the class after the midterm. Again, each student must select a different reading.  Your critique is worth 10% of your final class grade and is due before April 18. Late assignments are not accepted for any reason.

Critical Race Feminism: A Reader, edited by Adrien Katherine Wing.
Forward to the second edition by Richard Delgado
Forward to the first edition by Derrick Bell

How do I pick my reading? Reading selection is OPEN now. Pick your reading and post a comment stating your name and that you have selected the reading on that page. Once a reading has such a comment, it cannot be selected by another student. First come, first served.

PART 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 23 Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

2 Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory 34 Angela P. Harris

3 Black Women and the Constitution: Finding Our Place, Asserting Our Rights 42 Judy Scales-Trent

4 Racism, Civil Rights, and Feminism 48 Kathleen Neal Cleaver

5 Latinas-Everywhere Alien: Culture, Gender, and Sex 57 Berta Esperanza Hernandez-Truyol

6. Mascaras, Trenzas, y Greiias: Un/masking the Self while Un/braiding Latina Stories and Legal Discourse 70 Margaret E. Montoya

7 Mrs. Dred Scott 78 Lea S. Vandervelde and Sandhya L. Subramanian

PART II Outsiders in the Academy and Profession

8 A Social History of Everyday Practice: Sadie T. M. Alexander and the Incorporation of Black Women into the American Legal Profession, 1925-1960 91 Kenneth W. Mack

9 A Tribute to Thurgood Marshall: A Man Who Broke with Tradition on Issues of Race and Gender 101 Anita F Hill

10 Of Gentlemen and Role Models 106 Lani Guinier

11 It Is Better to Speak 114 Angela D. Gilmore

12 Failing to Mentor Sapphire: The Actionability of Blocking Black Women from Initiating Mentoring Relationships 120 Pamela J. Smith

13 The Politics of Pedagogy: Confessions of a Black Woman Law Professor 131 Deborah Waire Post

14 An Open Letter to Pierre Schlag 140 Maria Grahn-Farley

15 Transforming Silence: The Personal, Political, and Pedagogical Prism of Abortion Narrative 149 Pamela D. Bridgewater

PART III On Mothering or Not

16 Spare Parts, Family Values, Old Children, Cheap 1 59 Patricia Williams

17 Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and the Right of Privacy 167 Dorothy E. Roberts

18 Transracial Adoption: Mothers, Hierarchy, Race, and Feminist Legal Theory 176 Twila L. Perry

19 Polygamy in Black America 186 Adrien Katherine Wing

PART IV Criminality

20 Against Drug Use 197 Anita L. Allen

21 At the Intersection of Injustice: Experiences of African American Women in Crime and Sentencing 209 Paula C. Johnson

22 Rosa Lopez, Christopher Darden, and Me: Issues of Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in Evaluating Witness Credibility 219 Maria L. Ontiveros

23 Gender, Race, and Mental Illness: The Case of Wanda Jean Allen 228 Michele Goodwin

24 Erasing Race? A Critical Race Feminist View of Internet Identity Shifting 238 Margaret Chon

25 Male Fraud 250 Lisa C. Ikemoto

PART V Domestic Violence

26 Mules, Madonnas, Babies, Bathwater, Racial Imagery, and Stereotypes: The African-American Woman and the Battered Woman Syndrome 261 Linda L. Ammons

27 Availability of Domestic Violence Services for Latina Survivors in New York State: Preliminary Report 270 Jenny Rivera

28 Domestic Violence and Tribal Protection of Indigenous Women in the United States 278 Gloria Valencia-Weber and Christine P. Zuni

29 Enhancing Autonomy for Battered Women: Lessons from Navajo Peacemaking 287 Donna Coker

PART VI Working

30 Sapphire Bound! 301 Regina Austin

31 A Hair Piece: Perspectives on the Intersection of Race and Gender 309 Paulette M. Caldwell

32 The Fifth Black Woman 318 Devon W. Carbado and Mitu Gulati

33 Toward a Global Critical Feminist Vision: Domestic Work and the Nanny Tax Debate 328 Taunya Lovell Banks

34 Race, Class, and Gender Essentialism in Tax Literature: The Joint Return 339 Dorothy A. Brown

35 Converging Stereotypes in Racialized Sexual Harassment: Where the Model Minority Meets Suzie Wong 349 Sumi K. Cho

36 Race, Gender, and Social Class in the Thomas Sexual Harassment Hearings: The Hidden Fault Lines in Political Discourse 367 Emma Coleman Jordan

PART VII On the Borders

37 Muslim Women’s Rights in the Global Village: Challenges and Opportunities 375 Azizah Yahia al-Hibri

38 Public Benefits and Immigration: The Intersection of Immigration Status, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class 385 Kevin R. Johnson

39 Feminism versus Multiculturalism 395 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 406 Elvia R. Arriola

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, South and Southeast Asian Women

41 Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and Awakening: A South Asian Becoming ‘Critically’ Aware of Race in America

42 DESICRIT: THEORIZING THE RACIAL AMBIGUITY OF SOUTH ASIAN AMERICANS

43 South Asian Women’s Identities: A Media and Personal Narrative Analysis (caution, this is a long master’s thesis, unpublished, 113 pages)

44 The Experiences Of Colorism For South Asian Women: A Qualitative Study

45 Gender, Ethnicity and Political Agency South Asian Women Organizing (book with 7 chapters, pick one chapter)

46 The Implications of Intersectionality on Southeast Asian Female Students’ Educational Outcomes in the United States: A Critical Quantitative Intersectionality Analysis

47 “Your So Exotic Looking:” An Intersectional Analysis of Asian American and Pacific Islander Stereotypes