What is Critical Race Theory

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A theoretical framework constituting of six tenets that looks at race and whiteness. Learn more in: Racialization of Religion: Making Space for Counter-Narratives of Muslim American Youth

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A theory created in the 80s by Professor Derrick Bell in relation to critical legal studies and is used to address white supremacy and the subordination of people of color as a structural process. Learn more in: Allies in Solidarity Transcend Guilt and Unlearn Patriarchal Privileges: Diversity in Unity and the Advancement of a Critical Feminist Movement

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A legal movement that seeks to explain the relationship between race, racism, and institutional systems in the United States. Learn more in: The Exploration of Diversity and Inclusion Programs Within Institutions of Higher Education

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This theory asserts that racism is rooted in our society. Critical race theorists aim to bring racist societal practices to the forefront to create change and transformation. Learn more in: Minority Students in Teacher Education: Diversifying America’s K-12 Teaching Force

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Introduced by feminist and legal scholars during the 1960s civil rights movement as a response to racial inequities in the world, this framework helps to explore the ways race and racism consciously and unconsciously shape practices, discourses, and societal structures. Learn more in: Social Action Literacy for Elementary Teachers

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CRT is a theoretical framework that researchers use to explore racism, privilege, oppression, and power that marginalized populations face through socio-political and institutional processes. Learn more in: WOKE: Advocacy for African American Students

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Scholarship founded on the following tenants: an understanding laws and how Black people are impacted, realizing that racism is systematic, understanding situational context, realizing that neutrality and color-blindness are detrimental, and using various forms of writing to convey research and legal ideas. Learn more in: Multicultural Literature as Critical Literature: Redefine the Trajectory for Black Students

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Provides a critical analysis of race and racism from a legal point of view; it recognizes the marginalization of people of color based on inequities that exist in structures and institutions based on white privilege. Learn more in: Teacher Education and Digital Equity: Research in the Millennium

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Interdisciplinary conceptual framework that seeks to explicate significant relationships between race and the legal system in order to achieve racial justice. Learn more in: Twice as Good to Get Half: Content and Context of Black Male Teachers and Administrators

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An analytical approach to examine race, racism and its manifestation throughout institutions and other power structures. Learn more in: The People v. Critical Race Theory: Critical Race Theory on Trial

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A compilation of scholarly works that addresses the marginalizing effects of racial categorization. This framework specifically seeks to challenge the complexities of race embedded with the daily lives of marginalized others; and systemic racism. Learn more in: The Challenges and Responsibilities of White Women in Leadership: Strategies for Interrogating Whiteness in Higher Education

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A theoretical framework that uses critical theory to examine race, racism, and society. Learn more in: Building a Racial Identity: African American Students' Learning Experiences at the Florence County Museum

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A framework for examining society and culture as they relate to race, law, and power. Learn more in: Agnotology and Ideology: The Threat of Ignorance and Whiteness Ideology to Transformative Change

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A framework used to examine culture, society, and other phenomenon through the lens of race and racialized experiences (Bell, 1987; Solórzano & Delgado Bernal, 2001). Learn more in: Community Cultural Wealth: Uncovering Assets Through Community Mapping

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A theory and social movement that provides a multi-perspective racial approach to social structures and services. Learn more in: Framing eHealth Design on Critical Race Theory to Mitigate Barriers in Access to Healthcare

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A theoretical lens that explores race/culture and racism in the dominant discourse and attends to how perceptions of race impact victims. Learn more in: Black and Brown Women Fostering Authentic Activism in Counseling Programs Amid Social Unrest

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A theoretical approach to social and cultural analysis that acknowledges the institutional rather than individual nature of racism. Learn more in: Understanding the Attrition Rates of Diverse Teacher Candidates: A Study Examining the Consequences of Social Reproduction

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A theory for understanding the socially constructed concept of race and its relationship to power and oppression. Learn more in: Transforming the Education of Immigrant Youth: Program Implementation and Instructional Planning

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A framework that recognizes that race has social implications; makes use of the methodologies across the social sciences to come to a deeper understanding of the implications that racial dynamics have on present circumstance. Learn more in: Caring as an Authoritative Act: Re-Thinking Respect for Students and Teachers

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Critical race theory is a theory that guides anti-racist practice via the assumptions that white supremacy exists to perpetuate unequal societal power structure, and transformation of policy and institutional organization should be attempted in an effort to pursue justice by redressing inequity and diminishing oppression. Learn more in: An Ethics-of-Care Approach to Developing Students' Antiracist Practice in SLP Curricula: The Cross-Cultural-Communication Project

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Theories focused on issues related to race, power, and equality (Patton & Bondi, 2015). Learn more in: Perceived Discrimination Among African-American Faculty and the Elliott Kemp Organizational Change Model

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An intellectual and social movement and loosely organized framework of legal analysis based on the premise that race is not a natural, biologically grounded feature of physically distinct subgroups of human beings but a socially constructed (culturally invented) category that is used to oppress and exploit people of color. Learn more in: The New Chief Diversity Officer: Establishing a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Initiative

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A theoretical approach to social and cultural analysis that acknowledges the institutional rather than individual nature of racism. Learn more in: Re-Conceptualizing Race in New York City's High School Social Studies Classrooms

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A theoretical framework that examines and challenges the ways power is held by certain groups, while other groups are marginalized or oppressed. Learn more in: Calling In, Not Calling Out: A Critical Race Framework for Nurturing Cross-Cultural Alliances in Teacher Candidates

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Is a framework based on the premise that systems of oppression such as racism, have become so embedded as a norm in our society that is practice is assume to be natural (Ladson-Billings, 1998). Learn more in: Critical Race Theory: A Framework for Examining Social Identity Diversity of Black Women in Positions of Leadership

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A tradition of scholarship that critically examines the expression of institutionalized racism by culturally dominant groups. Learn more in: A DisCrit-Informed Critique of the Difference vs. Disorder Approach in Speech-Language Pathology