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

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.

Author: Richard Delgado
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 11/01/2005
Pages: 219
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.76h x 5.80w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780814719565

About the Author
Hochschild, Jennifer: - Jennifer Hochschild is Professor of Government at Harvard University.Delgado, Richard: -

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 includeCritical Race Theory, Third Edition (NYU Press, 2017),
Must We Defend Nazis? Why the First Amendment Should Not Protect Hate Speech and White Supremacy (NYU Press, 2018),
The Latino/a Condition: A Critical Reader (co-edited with Jean Stefancic; NYU Press 2010), Justice at War: Civil Liberaties and Civil Rights During Times of Crisis (NYU Press, 2005), The Rodrigo Chronicles (New York University Press, 1996), The Coming Race War: And Other Apocalyptic Tales of America After Affirmative Action and Welfare (NYU Press, 1996).