Robert W. Gordon, Critical Legal Histories, 36 Stan. L. Rev. 37 (1984)(detailing modes and contexts for critical approaches to legal history); Kendall Thomas, Rouge Et Noir Rerad: A Popular History of the Angelo Herdon Case, in Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement 465-494 (The New Press: New York 1995)(illustrating the critical race theory critique of a legal system that reduces people to a few abstract and formal legal doctrines, ignoring oppressive racial relationships, and offers an alternative reading that recovers the underlying struggles