scholarly journals Troubled Times: Disability, Sexuality and Futurity in Mozambican, Ugandan and Zimbabwean Political Cultures

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-38
Author(s):  
Eleanor K Jones
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Critical Value ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Political Cultures ◽  
The Future

Abstract Since the earliest days of European expansionism, Africa has held a dual place in the Western imaginary, cast as a space of futurelessness even as white futurities were predicated on its exploitation. Appropriations of the future have persisted post-liberation, revealed in the divestment of futurity from bodies marked as queer or disabled. Drawing on historical moments and literary texts from Mozambique, Uganda and Zimbabwe, and on insights from queer theory, critical race theory and disability studies, I seek to demonstrate that the logics of white supremacy can be seen at work in these mechanisms of exclusion, even where whiteness itself is displaced – but that literary invocation of queerness and disability can thus be used to mobilize critique of this continuity. In centring the circumscription of futurity at the heart of colonialism, heteronormativity and ableism, then, I underscore the critical value of reading these as reciprocal and inextricable systems of power.

scholarly journals Book Review: Organization Theory for Equity and Diversity: Leading Integrated, Socially Just Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-56
Author(s):  
Cara Costelnock
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Feminist Theories

Throughout the text, Capper explores critically oriented epistemologies such as Critical Race Theory; LatCrit, Asian, TribalCrit, and Black Crit; Disability Studies theories; feminist theories; Queer Theory, and theories of intersectionality. In each chapter she presents teaching suggestions and discussion questions to use within the classroom as well as discussion questions aimed to help aspiring leaders critically analyze their leadership strengths and limitations in order to integrate these epistemologies into practice. This review examines the suggestions for creating a learning environment that honors the diversities and strengths students bring to the classroom.

scholarly journals DisCrit: os limites da interseccionalidade para pensar sobre a pessoa negra com deficiência

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Oliveira de Almeida ◽  
Luana Adriano Araújo
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory

A Critical Race Theory (CRT) pode ser conceituada como um quadro referencial que performa uma leitura racializada das relações de classe, e uma leitura de classe das relações étnico-raciais. Os Disability Studies (DS), por sua vez, consistem no programa teórico pautado pela análise dos significados e das concepções de deficiência em sociedade. Engendrada na interseccionalidade entre essas perspectivas, a DisCrit surge como um campo emergente na teoria crítica, que busca reconhecer e aprofundar as influências mútuas entre a Critical Race Theory (CRT) e os Disability Studies (DS). Sua meta imediata é descrita como o integral endereçamento da realidade interseccional de corpos marcados pela negritude e pela deficiência. Há, contudo, um objetivo estrutural de fundamentação da DisCrit, consistente no entrelaçamento dos conceitos de raça e deficiência a partir da crítica da normalidade. A partir disso, buscamos, como objetivo geral, reanalisar a estabilidade conceitual da interseccionalidade como instrumento teórico para entender a experiência da pessoa negra com deficiência. Nossos objetivos específicos são: compreender a DisCrit e seu lugar nos estudos brasileiros de deficiência; tratar da interseccionalidade como cruzamento de duas ou mais categorias socialmente marginalizadas; e propor uma noção de interseccionalidade que redefina normalidades em cor e funcionamentos. Partimos do esforço por compreender se a DisCrit, fundamentada na interseccionalidade entre raça e deficiência, endereça adequadamente as estruturas de opressão geradas pela normalidade. A metodologia utilizada pautou-se por uma pesquisa hipotético-dedutiva, com abordagem qualitativo-descritiva e com aporte fundamental na revisão bibliográfica. Apontamos para a conclusão teórica de que a DisCrit é relevante quando sustentada em uma abordagem interseccional intercategorial sensível à maneira como diferentes marcadores (estampas) sociais recaem sobre um mesmo corpo. No campo do levantamento de literatura brasileira, apontamos para a necessidade de aprofundamento de estudos que contemplem raça e deficiência como categorias enredadas por uma concepção de normalidade.

In the End, There Is No Such Thing as Unconscious Racism: CRT/Asian American Crit Counterstories by Undergraduate Students During the Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 153270862110540
Author(s):  
Jeremy Hau Lam ◽  
Katrina Le ◽  
Laurence Parker
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Asian American ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Asian American Women ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Spring Semester ◽  
Honors College

This article emerged from undergraduate students in an Honors College class on critical race theory at the University of Utah during the spring semester 2020 during the pandemic. The counterstories evolve around critical race theory/Asian American Crit and the historical and current violence against the Asian American community in the United States. Given the recent anti-Asian American backlash which has emerged through the COVID-19 crisis, to the March 2021 murders of the Asian American women and others in Atlanta, we present these counterstories with the imperative of their importance for critical social justice to combat White supremacy.

Finding Grace

2020 ◽  
pp. 134-145
Author(s):  
Aeriel A. Ashlee
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Asian American ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
Racial Microaggressions ◽  
First Year ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Model Minority Myth ◽  
Race Theory

This chapter features a critical race counterstory from an Asian American womxn of color about her doctoral education and graduate school socialization. Framed within critical race theory, the author chronicles racial microaggressions she endured as a first-year higher education doctoral student. The author describes the ways in which the model minority myth is wielded as a tool of white supremacy and how the pervasive stereotype overlaps with the imposter syndrome to manifest in a unique oppression targeting Asian American graduate students. The author draws inspiration from Asian American activist Grace Lee Boggs, which helps her resist the intersectional oppression of white supremacy and patriarchy present within academia. The chapter concludes with recommendations to support womxn of color graduate students.

New Directions in Critical Race Theory and Sociology: Racism, White Supremacy, and Resistance

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (13) ◽  
pp. 1731-1740 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Christian ◽  
Louise Seamster ◽  
Victor Ray
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Empirical Inquiry ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The Subject

Critical Race Theory (CRT) provides a highly generative perspective for studying racial phenomena in social, legal, and political life, but its integration with sociological theories of race has not been systematic. However, a group of sociologists has begun to show the relevance of CRT for driving empirical inquiry. This special issue (our first of two on the subject) shows the relevance of CRT for sociological theory and empirical research. In this introduction, we identify primary concerns of CRT and show their sociological utility. We argue that CRT better explains the long-standing continuity of racial inequality than theories grounded in “progress paradigm,” as CRT shows how racism and white supremacy are reproduced through multiple changing mechanisms.

scholarly journals Review of DisCrit: Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education by David J. Connor, Beth A. Ferri & Subini A. Annamma, Eds. (2016)

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 554-558
Author(s):  
David Jaulus
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory

DisCrit places scholars from the field of Disability Studies (DS) in conversation with those from Critical Race Theory (CRT). Specifically, dis/ability is put into conversation with class- and race-based analyses to formulate an intersectional framework1. The concept of intersectionality has taken on heightened importance within Disability Studies in recent years. While Discrit is primarily intended for scholars and aspiring academics, the text also directly speaks to people like me, who identify as dis/abled.

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