Gloria Ladson-Billings is the Kellner Family Distinguished Chair of Urban Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. William F. Tate, IV is the Dean of the Graduate School and Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.

• Devon W. Carbado: Foreword: Critical What What? – Gloria Ladson-Billings: Introduction – Section One: Derrick Bell Teaching and Schooling – Gloria Ladson-Billings: Continuing to Sacrifice Black Children – Vinay Harpalani: "Gifted With a Second-Sight": Professor Derrick Bell the Teacher – Daniel G. Solórzano: A Critical Race Examination of McLaurin v. Oklahoma: How Derrick Bell Helped Me Understand George McLaurin’s Seat – Ana Carolina Antunes/Rosie Connor/Kathryn K. Coquemont/Kehaulani Folau/allison martin/Laura Todd/Laurence Parker: The Utility of "The Space Traders" and Its Variations as CRT Teachable Moments – Section Two: Derrick Bell and Principles of Critical Race Theory – Jamel K. Donnor: Derrick Bell, Brown, and the Continuing Significance of the Interest-Convergence Principle – David Gillborn: The Rules of Racial Standing: Critical Race Theory for Analysis, Activism, and Pedagogy – Nicola Rollock: Letter to My Unborn Daughter: My Career in the Academy—Reasons for My Mental Breakdown – Section Three: Derrick Bell on Theory – Adrienne D. Dixson: Derrick Bell’s Feminism: Profeminism, Intersection, and the Multiple Jeopardy of Race and Gender – Keffrelyn Brown: In Pursuit of Critical Racial Literacy: An (Auto)ethnographic Exploration of Derrick Bell’s Three Is – Anthony L. Brown: Derrick Bell on Race and Memory: From Abolition to Obama – William F. Tate: Afterword: The Ethics of Derrick Bell: Oh How He Loved – Contributors