Forging community in race and class: critical race theory and the quest for social justice in education

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Stovall
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Race And Class

Constructing a Positive Intrasection of Race and Class for the 21st Century

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos R. Mccray
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Potential Barriers ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Middle Class Blacks ◽  
Insight Into

This article attempts to provide some transparency with regard to how the intersection of race and class negatively affects African Americans in their effort to fight for social justice with regard to classism. Based on the explicit historical attempt to definitively make race and class synonymous, such a manufactured intersection is powerfully ingrained within the American psyche, and it has successfully created a quagmire with middle-class Blacks in their effort to fight against class injustice—specifically, those who are discriminated against in our society because of their lack of educational pedigree, economic standing, and job occupation. Thus, this article attempts to infuse sociological theoretical concepts with strands of critical race theory to provide insight into the potential barriers of middle-class Blacks’ amalgamation with African Americans of lower-wealth communities.

scholarly journals Unmasking, Exposing, and Confronting: Critical Race Theory, Tribal Critical Race Theory and Multicultural Education

2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanette Haynes Writer
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Tribal Critical Race Theory

Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Tribal Critical Race Theory (TribalCrit) offer the possibility of unmasking, exposing, and confronting continued colonization within educational contexts and societal structures, thus, transforming those contexts and structures for Indigenous People. Utilizing CRT and TribalCrit to support and inform “Multicultural Education as social justice,” we rid ourselves, our educational institutions, and ultimately the larger society from the “food, fun, festivals, and foolishness” form of Multicultural Education that maintains or propagates colonization.

scholarly journals Correcting whose errors? The principle of error correction from an ethnographic lens

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-380
Author(s):  
Virginia Zavala
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Error Correction ◽  
Language Ideologies ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Changing Society

Labovian sociolinguistics constitutes an important paradigm that brings to the forefront issues of social justice in linguistics and asks about the debt the scholar has towards the community once s/he gets information from it. Nevertheless, as many scholars have discussed, and even though this paradigm has focused on changing society for the better, it has serious limitations on how it conceptualizes the relationship between language and society. Based on critical race theory and language ideologies, Lewis powerfully contributes to this discussion by critiquing the principle of error correction (PEC) proposed by Labov as a particular way of conceptualizing social change. As Lewis points out at the end of the article, this principle reflects an ‘earlier era’ and needs to be reconsidered in light of the significant transformations not only in the study of language in society developed in recent decades but also in critical theory and humanities in general.

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