September 23, 2005

Received but not yet read: "Toxic Diversity: Race, Gender and Law Talk in America" by Touro Law Center prof Dan Subotnik, who was a gracious host when I spoke at Touro some years back. A analysis of and riposte to critical race theory, feminist legal theory, and other strands of the critical legal studies movement, it boasts blurbs from John McWhorter, Diane Ravitch, Christina Hoff Sommers and others including CLSer Richard Delgado. Prof. Subotnik also takes a leaf from some of the scholars he criticizes by drawing on narratives from his own experience in the legal academy as well as more familiar strains of legal and textual analysis.