The Rodrigo Chronicles: Conversations about America and Race

Dubbed a pioneer of critical race theory, Delgado offers a book of compelling conversations about race in America

Richard Delgado is one of the most evocative and forceful voices writing on the subject of race and law in America today. The New York Times has described him as a pioneer of critical race theory, the bold and provocative movement that, according to the Times will be influencing the practice of law for years to come.

In The Rodrigo Chronicles, Delgado, adopting his trademark storytelling approach, casts aside the dense, dry language so commonly associated with legal writing and offers up a series of incisive and compelling conversations about race in America. Rodrigo, a brash and brilliant African-American law graduate has been living in Italy and has just arrived in the office of a professor when we meet him. Through the course of the book, the professor and he discuss the American racial scene, touching on such issues as the role of minorities in an age of global markets and competition, the black left, the rise of the black right, black crime, feminism, law reform, and the economics of racial discrimination.

Expanding on one of the central themes of the critical race movement, namely that the law has an overwhelmingly white voice, Delgado here presents a radical and stunning thesis: it is not black, but white, crime that poses the most significant problem in modern American life.

Author: Richard Delgado
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 10/01/1996
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.84h x 5.91w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780814718827

About the Author
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).