What is Critical Race Theory

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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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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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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 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 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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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