One of the leading commentators on race in the United States, Richard Delgado has appeared on Good Morning America, the MacNeil-Lehrer Report, PBS, NPR, the Fred Friendly Show, and Canadian NPR. Author of over two hundred journal articles and twenty books, his work has been praised or reviewed in The Nation, The New Republic, the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. His books have won eight national book prizes, including six Gustavus Myers Awards for outstanding book on human rights in North America, the American Library Association's Outstanding Academic Book, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination.
Stanley Fish described his career and book, The Rodrigo Chronicles in the following terms: "Richard Delgado is a triple pioneer. He was the first to question free speech ideology; he and a few others invented critical race theory; and he is both a theorist and an exemplar of the importance of storytelling in the workings of the law. This volume brings all of Delgado's strengths together in a stunning performance."
Currently Richard Delgado teaches at the University of Alabama School of Law where he holds the title of John J. Sparkman Chair of Law.
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- JD, University of California - Berkeley
- BA, University of Washington
Education & Training
Books:
- Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America (West Group, 4th ed., forthcoming 2022).
- Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (NYU Press, 3d ed. 2018).
- The Derrick Bell Reader (NYU Press, 2005).
- The Rodrigo Chronicles: Conversations about America and Race (NYU Press, 1995).
Articles and Review Essays
- Critical Perspectives on Police, Policing, and Mass Incarceration, 104 Geo. L.J. 1531 (2016).
- Rodrigo’s Chronicle, 101 Yale L.J. 1357 (1992).
- Storytelling for Oppositionists and Others: A Plea for Narrative, 87 Mich. L. Rev. 2411 (1989).
- Why Do We Tell the Same Stories? Law Reform, Critical Librarianship, and the Triple Helix Dilemma, 42 Stan. L. Rev. 207 (1989).
- Fairness and Formality: Minimizing the Risk of Prejudice in Alternative Dispute Resolution, 1985 Wis. L. Rev. 1359.
- “Rotten Social Background”: Should the Criminal Law Recognize a Defense of Severe Environmental Deprivation? 3 Law & Inequality 9 (1985).
- The Imperial Scholar: Reflections on a Review of Civil Rights Literature, 132 U. Pa. L. Rev. 561 (1984).
- Words That Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name Calling, 17 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 133 (1982).
Critical Race Theory
Civil Rights
Constitutional Law
