Critical race theory
by Kimberle Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Garry Peller · first published 1996
67% neutral33% critical
In the past few years, a new generation of progressive intellectuals has dramatically transformed how law, race, and racial power are understood and discussed in America. Questioning the old assumptions of both liberals and conservatives with respect to the goals and the means of traditional civil rights reform, critical race theorists have presented new paradigms for understanding racial injustice and new ways of seeing the links between race, gender, sexual orientation, and class. This reader, edited by the principal founders and leading theoreticians of the critical race theory movement, ga
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…influence. A lot of these books describe social and historical phenomena - they may be the most authoritative scholarly text, but don't really influence broader society as much. The exception would be Critical Race Theory, which has outsized influence both inside and outside of academia.
on “What’s the Most Influential Book of the Past 20 Years?” ↗…colour as possible. They explicitly say that they want to undermine the American liberal order and do away with such concepts as legal neutrality and equality under the law; here's a quote from page 3 of Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, one of the leading textbooks: > Unlike traditional civil rights discourse, which stresses incrementalism and step-by-step progress, critical race theory questions the very foundations…
on “Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay” ↗I mean given all this talk about "truth" this author might want to have a look, in a proper library, as to what Critical Race Theory entails. I'm sure much interesting empirical evidence can be found in the work of e.g. Crenshaw.
on “The Assault on Empiricism” ↗