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HOW THE LEFT CAN WIN ARGUMENTS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE
CRITICAL AMERICA
General Editors: RICHARD DELGADO and JEAN STEFANCIC
White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race
Ian F. Haney Lpez
Cultivating Intelligence: Power, Law, and the Politics of Teaching
Louise Harmon and Deborah W. Post
Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America
Stephanie M. Wildman with Margalynne Armstrong,
Adrienne D. Davis, and Trina Grillo
Does the Law Morally Bind the Poor? or What Goods the
Constitution When You Cant Afford a Loaf of Bread?
R. George Wright
Hybrid: Bisexuals, Multiracials, and Other Misfits
under American Law
Ruth Colker
Critical Race Feminism: A Reader
Edited by Adrien Katherine Wing
Immigrants Out! The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant
Impulse in the United States
Edited by Juan F. Perea
Taxing America
Edited by Karen B. Brown and Mary Louise Fellows
Notes of a Racial Caste Baby: Color Blindness and the End of
Affirmative Action
Bryan K. Fair
Please Dont Wish Me a Merry Christmas:
A Critical History of the Separation of Church and State
Stephen M. Feldman
To Be an American: Cultural Pluralism and the
Rhetoric of Assimilation
Bill Ong Hing
Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of
Being Black in America
Jody David Armour
Black and Brown in America: The Case for Cooperation
Bill Piatt
Black Rage Confronts the Law
Paul Harris
Selling Words: Free Speech in a Commercial Culture
R. George Wright
The Color of Crime: Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism,
Police Harassment, and Other Macroaggressions
Katheryn K. Russell
The Smart Culture: Society, Intelligence, and Law
Robert L. Hayman Jr.
Was Blind, But Now I See: White Race Consciousness and the Law
Barbara J. Flagg
The Gender Line: Men, Women, and the Law
Nancy Levit
Heretics in the Temple: Americans Who Reject the Nations
Legal Faith
David Ray Papke
The Empire Strikes Back: Outsiders and the Struggle over
Legal Education
Arthur Austin
Interracial Justice: Conflict and Reconciliation in
PostCivil Rights America
Eric K. Yamamoto
Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader
Edited by Devon Carbado
When Sorry Isnt Enough: The Controversy over Apologies and
Reparations for Human Injustice
Edited by Roy L. Brooks
Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation State
Robert S. Chang
Rape and the Culture of the Courtroom
Andrew E. Taslitz
The Passions of Law
Edited by Susan A. Bandes
Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader
Edited by Adrien Katherine Wing
Law and Religion: Critical Essays
Edited by Stephen M. Feldman
Changing Race: Latinos, the Census, and the History of Ethnicity
Clara E. Rodrguez
From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of
the Environmental Justice Movement
Luke Cole and Sheila Foster
Nothing But the Truth: Why Trial Lawyers Dont, Cant, and
Shouldnt Have to Tell the Whole Truth
Steven Lubet
Critical Race Theory: A Primer
Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
Playing It Safe: How the Supreme Court Sidesteps Hard Cases
Lisa A. Kloppenberg
Why Lawsuits Are Good for America: Disciplined Democracy,
Big Business, and the Common Law
Carl T. Bogus
How the Left Can Win Arguments and Influence People:
A Tactical Manual for Pragmatic Progressives
John K. Wilson
CONTENTS
Chapter 1
The Death of Socialism
Chapter 2
The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (and Why the Left-Wing Needs One, Too)
Chapter 3
The Failure of Centrism and the Fall of the Democratic Party
Chapter 4
Polls: The Circle of Lies
Chapter 5
The Politics of Money: Campaign Financing and One Dollar, One Vote
Chapter 6
The Myth of the Liberal Media: How the Press Attacks Progressives
Chapter 7
The Globalization Wars: How the Left Won (and Lost) the Battle in Seattle
Chapter 8
Pragmatic Progressives
Chapter 9
Talking Tax Cuts: Lowering Taxes on the Poor
Chapter 10
Making Crime a Progressive Issue
Chapter 11
Winning the Culture Wars
Chapter 12
Equality for Every Child: Reforming Education
Chapter 13
Fighting the Union Label: Labor on the Left
Chapter 14
The Race for Justice: Defending Affirmative Action
Chapter 15
Universal Health Care
Chapter 16
Greener Politics: Progressives and the Environment
Chapter 17
Why We Need Welfare and How to Change It
Chapter 18
Ending Corporate Welfare As We Know It
Chapter 19
The Defense Industry: How to Protect America by Cutting the Military
Chapter 20
Saving Social Security
Chapter 21
The Future of Progressives: Generation Left