Essential Critical Race Theory Reading List
CRT Theorist Reading List:
- Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, Second Edition by: Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
- Forward: The Jurisprudence of Reconstruction (California Law Review, Vol 82, No. 4 July 1994) by: Angela Harris
- Looking to the Bottom: Critical Legal Studies and Reparations by: Mari J. Matsuda
- Handbook of Critical Race Theory in Education by: Marvin Lynn and Adrienne D. Dixson
- Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color by: Kimberle Crenshaw
- Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, And The First Amendment by: Mari J. Matsuda, Charles R. Lawrence III, Richard Delgado, and Kimberle Crenshaw
CRT Critics Reading List:
- Race, Equality and the Rule of Law: Critical Race Theory’s Attack on the Promises of Liberalism by: Jeffrey J. Pyle
- Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody by: James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose
- The Origins and Evolution of Critical Race Theory in Universities by: Andrew Sansone
- What is Critical Race Theory? by: James Lindsay
- Eight Big Reasons Critical Race Theory is Terrible for Dealing with Racism by: James Lindsay
Popular Books that Use CRT Principles and Ideas:
- How to Be an Anti-Racist by: Ibram X. Kendi
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by: Robin Diangelo
- So You Want to Talk About Race by: Ijeoma Olou
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by: Ibram X. Kendi
- Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy by: Barbara Applebaum
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by: Reni Eddo-Lodge