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Welcome to the alpha version of Understanding Race: the Encyclopedia of Critical Race Studies. We are trying to build an online repository of information about critical race studies, race, and the law. The encyclopedia is intended for a wide audience including researchers, journalists, judges, teachers, students, and engaged citizens.

The idea is to have entries authored by UCLA law students or faculty. (We hope to expand it to other experts eventually.) Each entry's status - including whether it has been edited by student editors alone or also faculty-reviewed - should be clearly noted in each entry.

Wiki + Quality Control + Transparency

In some ways, this project resembles a Wiki, which encourages decentralized production and sharing of knowledge. But we seek also to maintain a sort of quality control more consistent with academic publication. In addition, we have a "special collections" page where we focus on key issues of interest to our CRS community at UCLAW.

All entries are student edited and checked, in the manner that print law review editors check law reviews. In addition, on a rolling basis, the entries may be faculty-reviewed, which will add an additional guarantee of accuracy and quality. Because we don't want this editing process to pose too much of a bottleneck, we will simply mark each entry clearly with its status that appears in a table at the bottom of each entry.

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You can find materials in the Encyclopedia by browsing the hierarchy to the left, looking at a table of contents of all entries, or typing in "search terms" in the Find box on top.