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critical race theory en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A movement in academia involving the application of critical theory to issues surrounding the interaction between racial dynamics and social and legal power.
    • 2016, Gloria Ladson-Billings, "The Evolving Role of Critical Race Theory in Educational Scholarship", in: Adrienne D. Dixson, Celia K. Rousseau Anderson, Jamel K. Donnor (ed.), Critical Race Theory in Education: All God's Children Got a Song, Routledge, page It seems hard to believe that a decade has gone by since the term "critical race theory" was introduced into educational scholarship, and at the same time it is a very appropriate interval at which to take stock of where we are.
    • The Critical Race Theory (CRT) movement is a collection of activists and scholars interested in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism and power. 2012, Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, New York University Press, page 3:
    • In short, Critical Race Theory is an intellectual movement that is both particular to our postmodern (and conservative) times and part of a tradition of human resistance and liberation. 1995, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement, The New Press, page xi:
    • The actual critical race theory argues that racism isn’t just what happens when an individual decides to hate a group of people, but rather an ideology that has been embedded in American institutions. 2021 November 11, Jay Caspian Kang, “Can We Talk About Critical Race Theory?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
    • The fight over critical race theory seems, on the surface, further from theological concerns. There are, obviously, plenty of people who aren’t evangelical who are anti-C.R.T., as well as evangelicals who oppose C.R.T. bans. 2021 July 9, Michelle Goldberg, “The Christian Right Is in Decline, and It’s Taking America With It”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
    • But maybe the very obscurity of this genuine critical race theory is the point: before it became the object of the American right’s latest moral panic, few people had heard of critical race theory, and even fewer understood what it really was. 2021 June 17, Moira Donegan, “What the moral panic about ‘critical race theory’ is about”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
    • We would signal the specific political and intellectual location of the project through the "critical", the substantive focus through "race", and the desire to develop a coherent account of race and law through the term "theory"... If we were going to give this inchoate thing a name, let it be a proper sign on the intellectual landscape: Critical Race Theory. 2002, Kimberlé Crenshaw, "The First Decade: Critical Reflections, or 'A Foot in the Closing Door'", in: Francisco Valdes, Jerome Mccristal Culp and Angela Harris (ed.), Crossroads, Directions and A New Critical Race Theory, Temple University Press, page 19

Deriveds

critical race theorist

Relateds

racial Marxism

Synonyms

CRT

Translations (6)

de kritische Rassentheorie (Translations) · fr théorie critique de la race (Translations) · pl krytyczna teoria rasy (Translations) · ja 批判的人種理論 (Translations) · sv kritisk rasteori (Translations) · cmn 批判性種族理論 /批判性种族理论 (Translations)