Critical Race Theory: Une introduction aux grands textes fondateurs

This book presents for the first time in French some of the founding texts of Critical Race Theory as well as a selection of the most remarkable developments written by professors of American law on the legal production of race. The methodological approach of this powerful and innovative theoretical movement rooted in radical left-wing thought borrows from a wide spectrum of the humanities and social sciences, since the production of racism and its effects are analyzed both on a material and institutional level (justice, citizenship, work, education, health, etc.) and on a psychological level (prejudices, racial unconscious, eroticization of racial domination etc.). But far from bringing together only a set of translated texts on American political and legal life, this volume aims to see how this analysis in terms of "race" can find relevance in the European context, and more specifically in France. As such, long introductory headings written by French jurists, philosophers and historians explain the importance of each text for a renewed understanding of the French and European reality of social relations of sex, gender and race, considered in particular through the crystallization of debates on the veil, the teaching of the history of slavery and colonization, intersectionality, "positive discrimination", the offence of "racial hatred or defamation".