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Critical race theory (CRT) first emerged as a counterlegal scholarship to the positivistand liberal legal discourse of civil rights. This scholarly tradition argues against the slow pace of racial reform in the United States. Critical race theory begins with the notion that racism is normal in American society. It departs from mainstream legal scholarship by sometimes employing storytelling. It critiques liberalism and argues that Whites have been the primary beneficiaries of civil rights legislation.Since schooling in the USA purports to prepare citizens, CRT looks at how citizenship and race might interact. Critical race theory's usefulness in understanding education inequity is in its infancy. It requires a critique of some of the civil rights era's most cherished legal victories and educationalreform movements, such as multiculturalism. The paper concludes with words of caution about the use of CRT in education without a more thorough analysis of the legal literature upon which it is based..
Taylor & Francis Online :: Just what is critical race theory and what's it doing in a nice field like education? - International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education - Volume 11, Issue 1
Critical race theory (CRT) is an academic discipline focused upon the application of critical theory,[1][2] a critical examination of society and culture, to the intersection of race, law, and power.[1][3] According to the UCLA School of Public Affairs:
CRT recognizes that racism is engrained in the fabric and system of the American society. The individual racist need not exist to note that institutional racism is pervasive in the dominant culture. This is the analytical lens that CRT uses in examining existing power structures. CRT identifies that these power structures are based on white privilege and white supremacy, which perpetuates the marginalization of people of color.[4]
The movement is loosely unified by two common areas of inquiry. First, CRT proposes that white supremacy and racial power are maintained over time, and in particular, that the law may play a role in this process. Second, CRT work has investigated the possibility of transforming the relationship between law and racial power, and more broadly, pursues a project of achieving racial emancipation and anti-subordination.[5]
Critical race theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Critical Race Theory was developed out of legal scholarship. It provides a critical analysis of race and racism from a legal point of view. Since its inception within legal scholarship CRT has spread to many disciplines. CRT has basic tenets that guide its framework. These tenets are interdisciplinary and can be approached from different branches of learning.
What is Critical Race Theory? « UCLA School of Public Affairs | Critical Race Studies
Learning to look critically at race relations is a key part of critical race theory. Examining everyday interactions, and finding the racial component in them, can help move the racial equality cause forward perhaps more than a sometimes simplistic "color blind" approach. Looking carefully at what sociologists call micro-aggressions can help to see the true extent of racism in the United States, and through critical analysis, it is hoped people can begin to work past it.
What Is Critical Race Theory?
Now I know some prefer the wild accusations over actually knowing what something is, But I think the more we know . . .
Everything Below Is My Postings
I wonder if
you really know who, what and where the roots of
Critical Race Theory actually stems from?
I can see that you did stumble upon the truth in one of your links above,
but did you invest the time and effort to examine the Meat&Potatoes of
CRT's reality?
Critical Theory (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Critical Theory
First published Tue Mar 8, 2005
Critical Theory has a narrow and a broad meaning in philosophy and in the history of the social sciences.
“Critical Theory” in the narrow sense designates several generations of German philosophers and social theorists in the Western European Marxist tradition known as the Frankfurt School. According to these theorists, a “critical” theory may be distinguished from a “traditional” theory according to a specific practical purpose: a theory is critical to the extent that it seeks human emancipation, “to liberate human beings from the circumstances that enslave them” (Horkheimer 1982, 244). Because such theories aim to explain and transform all the circumstances that enslave human beings, many “critical theories” in the broader sense have been developed. They have emerged in connection with the many social movements that identify varied dimensions of the domination of human beings in modern societies. In both the broad and the narrow senses, however, a critical theory provides the descriptive and normative bases for social inquiry aimed at decreasing domination and increasing freedom in all their forms.
Critical Theory in the narrow sense has had many different aspects and quite distinct historical phases that cross several generations, from
the effective start of the Institute for Social Research in the years 1929–1930, which saw the arrival of the Frankfurt School philosophers and an inaugural lecture by Horkheimer, to the present. Its distinctiveness as a philosophical approach that extends to ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of history is most apparent when considered in light of the history of the philosophy of the social sciences.
Critical Theory was created and instituted for the methodical destruction of the fabric of America's social and economic infrastructure by attacking it's core values and institutions.
It targets everything from religion and family values to capitalism and the white male power structure.__These were very serious, determined and intelligent people who laid the groundwork for this marxist/progressive movement.
The motivation of course is very obvious considering the
Marxist ideology of this
"group of thinkers", who relocated to the US in 1933 from the Frankfurt School in Germany and set up shop at Columbia University in New York City.
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia:
Frankfurt school
Group of thinkers associated with the Institut fr Sozialforschung (Institute for Social Research), founded in Frankfurt in 1923 by Felix J. Weil, Carl Grnberg, Max Horkheimer, and Friedrich Pollock. Other important members of the school are Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, and Jrgen Habermas. After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Horkheimer moved the institute to Columbia University in New York City, where it functioned until 1941; it was reestablished in Frankfurt in 1950. Though the institute was originally conceived as a centre for neo-Marxian social research, there is no doctrine common to all members of the Frankfurt school. Intellectually, the school is most indebted to the writings of G.W.F. Hegel and the Young Hegelians ( Hegelianism), Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Wilhelm Dilthey, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud. critical theory.
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They immediately went to work on the easily influenced and naturally rebellious, eager young students entrusted to them at Columbia University, many of which were the sons and daughters from affluent families of media, industry and politics__This unwitting army of freshly indoctrinated Marxist followers grew and slowly spread far and wide becoming professors, activists and recruiters themselves at other universities across America.
During the 1960's these devoted followers, proudly wearing their Che Guevara and Karl Marx T-shirts, began surfacing in mass to fulfill the purpose of their indoctrination__The blossoming civil rights movement and a dragged out televised war in Vietnam made inciting civil unrest way too easy__The movement spread quickly to young America who was already beginning to emulate their long hair, dress and cool slang and eagerly joined them in the streets, most of which had no idea what was going on.
Destroying American values was easy considering they were telling people that religion is evil and to ignore the social taboos they were raised to believe and to get high and indulge in free love and disobey your parents and rebel against the system and embrace homosexuality and marriage enslaves women and the white man is a racist capitalist pig and to
"make love not war" which by the way was coined by one of the original Frankfurt School founders, Herbert Marcuse.
Many of the issues they protested and promoted are now deemed necessary, although doing the right thing was not their motivation__They can be credited for supporting such movements as women's liberation, racial equality and homosexual rights__They are also credited with the sexual revolution which weakened the family unit and increased the divorce rate, premarital sex, teenage pregnancy and unwed child birth among other things.
Critical Theory was not only the inspiration for Professor Bell's
Critical Race Theory but it also spawned
Political Correctness which has kept the so-called
"progressive" movement alive long after these Marxist hippies grew up, got a haircut and put on a three piece pin stripped suit and took control of the television and entertainment industries, teacher and labor unions, universities and nearly all of the print and electronic news outlets__They pretty much own American journalism which influences
your vote and determines elections.
We are played like a fine tuned Stradivarius___Make that a fiddle__We don't deserve a Stradivarius status.
