Justice at War: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights During Times of Crisis - Hardcover

Delgado, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814719554 ISBN 13: 9780814719558

Publisher: New York University Press, 2003

Synopsis

The status of civil rights in the United States today is as volatile an issue as ever, with many Americans wondering if new laws, implemented after the events of September 11, restrict more people than they protect. How will efforts to eradicate racism, sexism, and xenophobia be affected by the measures our government takes in the name of protecting its citizens?

Richard Delgado, one of the founding figures in the Critical Race Theory movement, addresses these problems with his latest book in the award-winning Rodrigo Chronicles. Employing the narrative device he and other Critical Race theorists made famous, Delgado assembles a cast of characters to discuss such urgent and timely topics as race, terrorism, hate speech, interracial relationships, freedom of speech, and new theories on civil rights stemming from the most recent war.

In the course of this new narrative, Delgado provides analytical breakthroughs, offering new civil rights theories, new approaches to interracial romance and solidarity, and a fresh analysis of how whiteness and white privilege figure into the debate on affirmative action. The characters also discuss the black/white binary paradigm of race and show why it persists even at a time when the country's population is rapidly diversifying.

About this title

About the Authors

Richard Delgado is John J. Sparkman Chair of Law at the University of Alabama and one of the founders of critical race theory. His books include The Latino/a Condition: A Critical Reader (coedited with Jean Stefancic) and The Rodrigo Chronicles.

Jennifer Hochschild is Professor of Government at Harvard University.

Edition details

• Publisher: New York University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814719554
• ISBN 13: 9780814719558
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 219