Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
1-27-2010
SSRN Discipline
Legal Scholarship Network; Philosophy Research Network; Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; Cognitive Science Network; Humanities Network
Abstract
I wrote this piece exploring some of the intellectual origins of critical race theory for a 20year anniversary of the movement held at the University of Iowa in April 2009 In it I look at the role of certain prominent university officers in purging their ranks of white radicals to prepare the way in the late sixties and early seventies for the first large group of postBrown minority students who were starting to arrive around that time I show how four promising white professors two of law one of history and one of criminology lost their jobs and what they did afterward I show that they continued to teach and write about leftwing thought in the hinterlands in ways that contributed to the rise of critical race theory As they say it is hard to kill an idea
Recommended Citation
Richard Delgado,
Liberal McCarthyism and the Origins of Critical Race Theory,
(2010).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_working_papers/206