Ok, here's some of the CRT books that I've taught and read over the years:
Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (1995) google.com/books/edition/…
Critical Race Feminism: A Reader (1997) google.com/books/edition/…
Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader (2000) google.com/books/edition/…
Derrick Bell's 1992 Faces at the Bottom of the Well google.com/books/edition/…
Derrick Bell And We Are Not Saved (1987) google.com/books/edition/…
Critical Race Theory The Cutting Edge (1995) amazon.com/Critical-Race-…
Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech and The First Amendment (1993) amazon.com/Critical-Race-…
The books I'm not naming authors for are edited collections. Also, everything that Derrick Bell wrote should be on this list.
Neil Gotanda's "A Critique of Our Constitution is Colorblind" ( think 1991, out of print)
When I was a legal academic I participated often in "LatCrit" which was a Latino Critical Race Theory community. There's important publications on their website: latcrit.org/about-latcrit/
Charles Lawrence's foundational 1987 article "The Id, The Ego and Equal Protection" scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/1012…
"Crossroads Directions and a New Critical Race Theory" (2002) amazon.com/Crossroads-Dir…
Patricia J. Williams The Alchemy of Race and Rights (1991) hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is…
(also, sorry this is all out of order, my CRT books are at work where I haven't been in what seems like forever)
Patricia J. Willams The Roosters Egg: On the Persistence of Prejudice hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is…
Ian Haney Lopez White By Law: The Legal Construction of Race (1996) amazon.com/White-Law-Cons…
Richard Delgado's The Rodrigo Chronicles which was an engagement with Derrick Bell's critical fictional character Geneva Crenshaw (based on Kim Crenshaw) nyupress.org/9780814718827/…
Ok, obviously there's a ton more. Other folks hopefully will add. This is just a good share of foundational work. Hopefully useful for those thinking about CRT <3
Oh also, what you'll see with the edited collections especially is how robust a conversation/intellectual movement was happening under the banner of CRT.
Another book, that doesn't fall under the scholarly community of CRT, but which I think is important for thinking about critical engagement with race, Race Critical Theories: Text and Context (2001) amazon.com/Race-Critical-…
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One last thing: Owen Fiss’s 1976 article “Groups and the Equal Protection Clause” was an important precursor to understanding why “colorblindness” can in fact sustain racial inequality. It’s good for historical context too.
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