Critical Race Theory

A general theme of chapters four through six is undercover racism. As racism is a social construct, it has been able to change with the times. For instance, the blatant racism that could pass with the period of Jim Crow … Read More »

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s groundbreaking book “Racism Without Racists” analyzes the complex workings of modern racism in the US, with a special emphasis on the issue of color-blind racism. The book’s first three chapters introduce major ideas and themes that show how … Read More »

In order to properly analyze and breakdown this discussion I wanted to break the readings into 3 separate sections. First, I will be covering the Racial Preference Licensing Act, followed by The Chronicle of the Space Traders, then ending with … Read More »

In this article, Bell outlines the concept of interest convergence, an idea that has since become vital to Critical Race Theory, through an analysis of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Interest convergence has proven to be a useful … Read More »

Kimberly Crenshaw is someone who I’ve studied before in WGSS classes both here at the University of Richmond and at my previous school, the University of South Carolina. We mainly went in depth about the term she coined as intersectionality … Read More »

In Chapters 1 and 2 of Critical Race Theory, authors and CRT pioneers Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic give readers an introduction to the theory as a discipline, an intellectual tradition, and a tool for marginalized people to strategize about … Read More »