Athena D. Mutua

Athena D. Mutua.

Professor; Floyd H. & Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar

Research Focus: Business Associations, Civil Rights Law, Constitutional Law, Critical Race and Feminist Legal Theory, Law and Political Economy
Links:
 Curriculum Vitae, SSRN

Contact Information

528 O'Brian Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
716-645-2873
admutua@buffalo.edu

Faculty Assistant: Anita M. Gesel

Biography Publications

Books

PROGRESSIVE BLACK MASCULINITIES (Athena Mutua, ed.) (Routledge:   2006)

Journal Articles

Mapping Racial Capitalism: Implications for Law (with Carmen G. Gonzalez), JOURNAL OF LAW &POLITICAL ECONOMY (2022)

A ClassCrits Time?: Building Institutions, Building Frameworks -Law, Class & Racial Capitalism, 1 JOURNAL OF LAW & POLITICAL ECONOMY 333, 333-370 (2021)

Liberalism’s Identity Politics: A Reply to Fukuyama, 23 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL OF LAW & SOCIAL CHANGE 27, 27-49 (2020)

LATCRIT PRAXIS @ XX: Toward Equal Justice in Law, Education and Society (with T. Mahmud and F. Valdes) , 90 CHICAGO-KENT LAW REVIEW 361-426 (2015)

Framing Elite Consensus, Ideology and Theory & A ClassCrits Response, 44 SOUTHWESTERN LAW REVIEW 635 (2015)

Disparities in Judicial Misconduct Cases: Color-Blind Diversity, THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF GENDER, SOCIAL POLICY AND THE LAW vol. 23 : 23 (2014)

Stuck: Fictions, Failures and Market Talk as Race Talk (Forward to Symposium Issue: Stuck in Forward? Debt, Austerity and the Possibilities of the Political) SOUTHWESTERN LAW REVIEW vol. 43 : 517-548 (2014)

Multidimensionality is to Masculinities what Intersectionality is to Feminism, NEVADA LAW JOURNAL vol. 13: 101-129 (2013)

Valuing Difference, Exercising Care in Oz: The Shaggy Man's Welcome, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INTERDISCIPLINARY LAW JOURNAL (2010) vol. 20 p. 215

Introducing ClassCrits: Rejecting Class-Blindness, A Critical Legal Analysis of Economic Inequity, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW (2008) vol. 56 p. 859

Gender Equality and Women's Solidarity Across Religious, Ethnic and Class Difference, WILLIAM AND MARY JOURNAL OF WOMEN AND THE LAW (2006) vol. 13 p. 1

The Rise, Development and Future Directions of Critical Race Theory and Related Scholarship, DENVER UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW (2006) vol. 84 p. 329

Who Gets In? The Quest for Diversity After Grutter, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW (2004) vol. 52 p. 531

Five Years After Beijing: A Report Card on Women’s Human Rights, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW PROCEEDINGS (2000) vol. 94 p. 287 

Why Retire the Feminization of Poverty Construct, DENVER UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW (2000) vol. 78 p. 1179

Shifting Bottoms and Rotating Centers: Reflections on LatCrit III and the Black/White Paradigm, UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LAW REVIEW  (1999) vol. 53 p. 1177

Book Chapters

Latino Masculinities, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LATINO/A POLITICS, LAW AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, (Oxford University Press, 2015)
SSRN

The Multidimensional Turn: Revisiting Progressive Black Masculinities, MASCULINITIES AND THE LAW: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH (Frank Rudy Cooper and Ann C. McGinley, ed.) (2012) p. 78
SSRN

Law, Critical Race Theory, and Related Scholarship, HANDBOOK ON RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES (Sage Publications:   2010) p. 275

Mills v. Board of Education of Anne Arundel County, and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Brown, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AFRICAN AMERICAN EDUCATION (Sage Publications:   2010) vol. 1 p. 447

Book Reviews

LEGACY AND LEGITIMACY:  BLACK AMERICANS AND THE SUPREME COURT (Rosalee A. Clawson and Eric N. Waltenburg), Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, in 32 ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES 1489-1503 (No. 8, October 2009)

Reports, Papers & Other Scholarship

Restoring Justice to Civil Rights Movement Activists?: New Historiography and the “Long Civil Rights Era”, Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper Series (2008) vol. No. 2008-12
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