Critical race theory, intellectual and social movement and framework of legal analysis based on the premise that race is a socially constructed category that is used to oppress and exploit people of color. Critical race theorists hold that racism is inhe
Clearly, Alice has inf l uence over the apartment, but Jane has dominion.If Alice were a critical race theorist, she would use one word to describe her inability to exert suf f i cient power to change the basic design of the apartment: “subordination.” Jane, not Alice, exercises ...
Indeed, until around 1960, the utterances of critical theory — the intellectual precursor to critical race theory — came first in German, and were then translated into English. Before it was the First Marxist Work Week, it was theErste Marxistische Arbeitswoche; before it was the ...
power imbalances at work in every one of these categories.To the critical theorist, traditional norms surrounding sexuality and gender are just as oppressive as those that involve race or class.Here, we see the tremendous gap between the way that the Bible and critical theory define ‘oppression...
Crenshaw, Kimberle
This article demonstrates that there are affinities between Tocqueville's commentary on race and race relations in Democracy in America and the core assumptions of the critical race theory movement. Tocqueville shares with critical race theorists the view that white privilege was endemic in American ...
Goodhart’s Law is named after British monetary policy theorist and economist Charles Goodhart. Speaking at a conference in Sydney in 1975, Goodhart said that “any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.” Goodhart’s Law states ...
most notably in the writings of Derek Gregory. Influenced by the social theorist Anthony Giddens, also then at Cambridge University, Gregory (1978) argued for a critical synthesis of ‘structural’ and ‘reflexive’ approaches to geographical explanation that would go beyond their traditional antagonism...
I’m not a conspiracy theorist. Really. But as I wade through the thicket of science studies and rhetoric of science readings I have on my desk, I am more and more impressed with the power of paradigmatic thinking to distort how scientific knowledge is produced and disseminated. Daisy Zamora...
and that the laws and systems that grow from that past are detached from it,” said Kimberlé Crenshaw,a founding critical race theoristand a law professor who teaches at UCLA and Columbia University.