Articles and Chapters
The New Racial Preferences (with Devon Carbado), 96 California Law Review 1139-1214 (2008).
'Too Pure an Air:' Somerset's Legacy from Anti-slavery to Colorblindness, 13 Texas Wesleyan Law Review 439-58 (2007).
Whitewashing Race: Scapegoating Culture, 94 California Law Review 907-943 (2006). Reviewing Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society, by Michael K. Brown.
In the Shadow of Plessy, 7 Journal of Constitutional Law 867 (2005).
The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson: The Death and Resurrection of Racial Formalism, in Constitutional Law Stories (edited by Michael Dorff, New York: Foundation Press, 2004).
Book Review, Mining in Hard Ground, 116 Harvard Law Review 2487-2539 (2003). Reviewing The Miner’s Canary, by Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres.
What the Supreme Court did not Hear in Grutter and Gratz, 51 Drake Law Review 697-713 (2003).
Critical Race Studies: An Introduction, 49 UCLA Law Review 1215-39 (2002).
Equal Treatment and the Reproduction of Inequality, 69 Fordham Law Review 1753-83 (2001).
Re-Imagining Community, 47 UCLA Law Review 1839-42 (2000).
Sojourner Truth, in Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (2nd ed., edited by Leonard W. Levy, Kenneth L. Karst et al., New York: Macmillan, 2000).
On Visual Oral History: Meditations on Kerry James Marshall's "Mementos", The Renaissance Society (1999).
Finding Sojourner's Truth: Race, Gender and the Institution of Slavery, 18 Cardozo Law Journal 309-409 (1997).
Myths of Race and Gender in the Trials of O.J. Simpson and Susan Smith–Spectacles of Our Times, 35 Washburn Law Journal 225-53 (1996).
Whiteness as Property, 106 Harvard Law Review 1709-91 (1993). Edited version reprinted in Critical Race Theory: Key Writings That Formed a Movement (edited by Crenshaw, Gotanda, et al., New York: New Press, 1997).
Law Professors of Color and the Academy, 68 Chicago-Kent Law Review 331 (1992). Reprinted in Critical Race Feminism (edited by A. Wing, New York: NYU Press, 1997).
Other
Look Before You Leap (with Walter R. Allen), National Law Journal (Oct. 22, 2007).
A Roundtable Discussion with Paul Brest, Cheryl I. Harris, Kirk O. Kolbo, Dennis J. Shields & Shelli D. Soto (with Paul Brest, Kirk O. Kolbo, Deniss J. Shields, and Shelli D. Soto), 51 Drake Law Review 761-74 (2003).
Closing Remarks: Reimagining Community, 47 UCLA Law Review 1839-42 (2000).
Book Review, Bell’s Blues, 60 University of Chicago Law Review 783-93 (1993). Reviewing Faces at the Bottom of the Well, by Derrick Bell.
African Americans and the Right to Self-Determination: The Duties Associated with the Right to Self-Determination, 17 Hamline Law Review 60 (1993).
Impact of the End of the Cold War on Africa, 48 The Guild Practitioner (1991).
