Foreword / Cornel West --
Part 1, Intellectual precursors: early criticism of conventional civil rights discourse. Serving two masters : integration ideals and client interests in school desegregation litigation / Derrick A. Bell, Jr. --
Brown v. Board of Education and the interest convergence dilemma / Derrick A. Bell, Jr.--
Legitimizing racial discrimination through antidiscrimination law : a critical review of Supreme Court doctrine / Alan David Freeman --
The imperial scholar : reflections on a review of civil rights literature / Richard Delgado --
Part 2, Critical race theory and critical legal studies: contestation and coalition. Looking to the bottom : critical legal studies and reparations / Mars Matsuda --
The clouded prism : minority critique of the critical legal studies movement / Harlon L. Dalton --
Beyond critical legal studies : the reconstructive theology of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. / Anthony E. Cook --
Race, reform, and retrenchment : transformation and legitimation in antidiscrimination law / Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw.
Part 3, Toward a critical cultural pluralism : progressive alternatives to mainstream civil rights ideology. Race-consciousness / Gary Peller --
A cultural pluralist case for affirmative action in legal academia / Duncan Kennedy --
Translating "Yonnondio" by precedent and evidence : the Mashpee Indian case / Gerald Torres and Kathryn Milun --
Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. FCC : regrouping in singular times / Patricia J. Williams --
Part 4, Critical race theory and legal doctrine. Groups, representation, and race-conscious districting : a case of the emperor's clothes / Lani Guinier --
The id, the ego, and equal protection : reckoning with unconscious racism / Charles R. Lawrence, III --
A critique of "our constitution is color-blind" / Neil Gotanda --
Whiteness as property / Cheryl I. Harris --
Race in the twenty-first century : equality through law? / Linda Greene --
Racial realism / Derrick A. Bell, Jr.
Part 5, The search for an oppositional voice. Critical race theory, Archie Shepp, and fire music : securing an authentic intellectual life in a multicultural world / John O. Calmore --
Two life stories : reflections of one black woman law professor / Taunya Lovell Banks --
The word and the river : pedagogy as scholarship as struggle / Charles R. Lawrence, III --
Part 6, The intersection of race and gender. Mapping the margins : intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color / Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw --
Punishing drug addicts who have babies : women of color, equality, and the right of privacy / Dorothy E. Roberts --
Sapphire bound! / Regina Austin --
Part 7, Race and postmodernism. Navigating the topology of race / Jayne Chong-Soon Lee --
The boundaries of race : political geography in legal analysis / Richard Thomson Ford --
Rouge et noir reread : a popular constitutional history of the Angelo Herndon case / Kendall Thomas.
