CRT Introduction
CRT Movement - Answer- - collection of activists and scholars interested in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power
- CRT contains an activist dimension
- began as a movement in the law
Basic Tenets (principles) if CRT - Answer- - Racism is ...
CRT Introduction
CRT Movement - Answer- - collection of activists and scholars interested in studying
and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power
- CRT contains an activist dimension
- began as a movement in the law
Basic Tenets (principles) if CRT - Answer- - Racism is ordinary
- our system of white-over-color ascendancy
- "interest convergence" or material determinism advances interest of white elites
(materially) and working class people (psychically)
thus, society may have little incentive to eradicate it
"Social construction" thesis - Answer- - race= product of social thoughts and
relations
Differential Racialization - Answer- -dominant society racializes dif. minority groups
at different times, in response to shifting needs such as the labor market.
Intersectionality & anti-essentialism - Answer- - each race has its own origins and
never evolving history
- no person has a single, unitary identity
Pervasiveness of Racism - Answer- - blacks, latinos seeking loans, apartments, jobs
more likely to be rejected
- prison population = largely of color
Hallmark Critical Race Theory Themes .... - Answer- interest convergence, material
determinism, & racial realism
"idealists" - Answer- - racism and discrimination as matters of thinking, mental
categorization, attitude, and discourse.
- race as a social construction - not biological reality thus it may be unmade
"realists" or economic determinists - Answer- - though attitudes and words are
important, racism is much more than having an unfavorable impression of other
groups
- racism = a means by which society allocates privilege and status.
- racial hierarchies determine benefits
Materialists - Answer- - conquered nations generally demonize their subjects to feel
better about exploiting them
- form collective attitudes or rationalize
Revisionist History - Answer- - reexamines America's historical record, replacing
comforting majority interp. of events w/ ones that square more accurately w/
minorities experiences
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