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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The CRT movement is a collection of activists and scholars who study and transform the relationship between race, racism, and power. They consider many of the same issues that conventional civil rights and ethnic studies discourses take up, but they place them in a broader perspective that includes economics, history, setting, group and self-interest, and emotions and the unconscious. #2 Critical race theory is the study of race in the United States, and it was developed in the 1970s to combat the rollbacks of civil rights that were occurring at that time. #3 Critical race theory builds on the insights...
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Ban it! the initial arguments for campus speech codes -- Wayne dick's plea: the critics fight back -- See you in court: the campus hate speech cases -- Hostile environment takes a front seat -- The attack on hostile environment -- And the verdict is -- The debate: 1998-2008.
The past two decades have seen an outpouring of work in legal theory that is self-consciously critical of aspects of American law and the institutions of the liberal state. In this lively volume, eminent scholars in philosophy, law, and political science respond to this recent scholarship by exploring what constitutes a "radical" critique of the law, examining such theories as critical legal studies, feminist theory and theories of "difference," and critical race theory. The authors consider whether the critiques advanced in recent legal theory can truly be called radical and what form a radical critique of American law should take. Writing at the cutting edge of the critique of critical leg...
Strum (political science, City U. of New York-Brooklyn) describes the events when a neo-Nazi group announced it would parade in the Chicago suburb in 1977, and the ensuing court case that tested the devotion of many to the principles of free speech. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Contributors from philosophy and political science discuss the observation that civility, civic virtue, tolerance, and socio-cultural unity have declined while exploring the nature of civil society, the conflict between individual liberty and the common good, and the role of law and government policy in weaving the threads of the social fabric. From publisher description.
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