"Covenant Keeper": Derrick Bell’s Enduring Education Legacy

Cover
Contents
Foreword: Critical What What?
	Notes
Introduction
	Note
	References
Section One: Derrick Bell Teaching and Schooling
	Chapter One: Continuing to Sacrifice Black Children
		My Bell Selection
		What I Did with the Chronicle
		What the Chronicle Can Mean in the 21st Century
		The Continuing Sacrifice
			School Segregation
			Post-Secondary Outcomes
			School Suspensions
			School Expulsions
			Privatization of Public Schools
		Coda
		References
	Chapter Two: “Gifted With a Second-Sight”: Professor Derrick Bell the Teacher
		Introduction: A Teacher First and Foremost
		My First Job Out of Law School
		“The Constitution Is Like Roach Powder”
		“It Just Means Telling the Truth”
		“Don’t Let the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good”
		“Humanizing the Law School Experience”
		Conclusion: A Teacher until the Very End
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		References
	Chapter Three: A Critical Race Examination of McLaurin v. Oklahoma: How Derrick Bell Helped Me Understand George McLaurin’s Seat
		Introduction
		How I Came to Know McLaurin v. Oklahoma
		Critical Race Theory and the Working Definitions of Race, Racism, Racial Microaggressions, Institutional Racism, and White Supremacy
		McLaurin v. Oklahoma Legal History
		Using the Tools of Racial Microaggressions, Institutional Racism, and White Supremacy to Analyze the McLaurin Photo
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter Four: The Utility of “The Space Traders” and Its Variations as CRT Teachable Moments
		Introduction by Laurence Parker
			The Centrality of Race and Racism
			The Challenge to Dominant Ideology
			A Commitment to Social Justice and Praxis
			A Centrality of Experiential Knowledge
			A Historical Context and Interdisciplinary Perspective
		The Space Traders Return: The Story of Southeast Asian Americans by Kathryn K. Coquemont
		An Examination of Black Female Physician Faculty Using a Critical Race Theory Lens by Rosie Connor
		Space Traders in the Wealthy Rockies by Laura Todd
		Space Traders in the U.S. on TV in Brazil by Ana Carolina Antunes
		The Space Traders Come to Take a “Problem” off a School’s Hands by Allison Martin
		Poetic Counterstories: Spoken-Word Poetry as a Form of Talking Back by Kehaulani Folau
		My Counterstory
		References
Section Two: Derrick Bell and Principles of Critical Race Theory
	Chapter Five: Derrick Bell, Brown, and the Continuing Significance of the Interest-Convergence Principle
		Derrick Bell and the Interest-Convergence Principle
		Chapter Outline
		The Genesis of the Interest-Convergence Thesis
			The Problem With Brown
			Parents v. Seattle School District No. 1
		The Continuing Significance of Interest-Convergence Theory
		Note
		References
	Chapter Six: The Rules of Racial Standing: Critical Race Theory for Analysis, Activism, and Pedagogy
		Introduction: Racism Lives
		Analysis and Critique: “The Rules” in Action
			Black Voices and White Racism
			The Politics of Authenticity and Somersaulting Conservatives
		The Cowardice of Racism: From “Spineless” to “Courageous” in a Single Political Leap
			Double Standards, “Decent” People, and White Martyrdom
		Activism, Prophecy, and Conspiracy: Using “The Rules”
		Critical Race Pedagogy: Teaching and Re/writing “The Rules”
		Towards a Conclusion
		Epilogue: Are You White?
		Notes
		References
	Chapter Seven: Letter to My Unborn Daughter: My Career in the Academy—Reasons for My Mental Breakdown
		Critical Story-Telling for Activists
			Setting the Context
		Letter to My Unborn Daughter
		Promotion
		White Female Faculty
		The Risks of Speaking Out
		Racial Gesture Politics
		Postscript: A Note from the Author
		Notes
		References
Section Three: Derrick Bell on Theory
	Chapter Eight: Derrick Bell’s Feminism: Profeminism, Intersection, and the Multiple Jeopardy of Race and Gender
		Black Feminism within CRT
		Derrick Bell’s Protests
		Derrick Bell’s Feminism
		The Chronicle of the 27-year Syndrome
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter Nine: In Pursuit of Critical Racial Literacy: An (Auto)ethnographic Exploration of Derrick Bell’s Three Is
		Introduction and Goal of the Chapter
		An (Auto)Ethnographic Narrative of Race
		Derrick Bell on Acquiring a Critical Racial Literacy
		Toward a Critical Racial Literacy: Putting this Work into Research and Teaching Practice
		References
	Chapter Ten: Derrick Bell on Race
and Memory: From Abolition to Obama
		Introduction
		Derrick Bell’s Theoretical Tenets of Historical Revision
		Black Revisionist Histories in the Black Intellectual Tradition
		Racial Revisionist American History—Bell’s Historical Pessimism
			White Interests and Black Freedom: Abolition and Slavery
		The Post-Civil-War Amendments: Rethinking Radical Reconstruction
		Brown v. Board of Education: Interest-Convergence and History
		Obama: On Elections and Freedom
		Bell’s Historical Fiction and the Method of Racial Chronicles
		Conclusion: Bell and Re-thinking of Black History
		References
Afterword: The Ethics of Derrick Bell: Oh, How He Loved
	Military Service to Country
	Ethics, Religion, and the War on Racial Injustice
	Family Man
	Words of Derrick Bell
	References
Contributors
Index