Connecting Critical Race Theory with Second Generation Legal Consciousness Work in Obasogie's Blinded by Sight

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (04) ◽  
pp. 1069-1077 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura E. Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
The Other ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Racial Consciousness ◽  
Legal Consciousness ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Legal Scholar

Sociologist and legal scholar Osagie Obasogie's study of how blind people “see” race reveals the usually invisible, taken-for-granted mechanisms that reproduce racism. In Blinded by Sight, he distinguishes racial consciousness from legal consciousness, though he notes their common emphases on studying how cumulative social practices and interactions produce commonsense understandings. I argue that there is much to be gained from connecting these two fields, one emanating primarily out of critical race theory and the other out of law and society scholarship. Legal consciousness offers an important avenue for bridging macro studies of race making with micro studies such as Obasogie's, which focus on individuals' experiences and practices of constructing race and learning racism.

scholarly journals I Really Wasn’t Ready: Expectations and Dilemmas of a University Student in an Access Access Program

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl James
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Equality Of Opportunity ◽  
University Student ◽  
The Other ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
The University ◽  
Access Program

Using a life story approach, I discuss the experiences and actions of Ewart, one of eighteen university recruits into an access program, to understand the ways in which the university, and the access program specifically, was accommodative of his needs, interests, expectations and aspirations. Critical Race Theory provided the framework to understand how educational institutions’ liberal notions of merit, equality of opportunity and democracy, on one hand, made access to university possible for Ewart, and on the other, circumscribed his opportunities, possibilities and interests even as he tried to maintain his hopeful optimism.

The other within: Agency and resistance under conditions of exclusion

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-24
Author(s):  
José Medina
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Migrant Populations ◽  
Proper Functioning ◽  
The Relationship

This essay puts in conversation some of Seyla Benhabib’s insights about exiled, stateless and migrant populations with ongoing discussions in critical race theory about the racial exclusions of indigenous populations and populations of colour not only in the foundations of Western modern states but also in their contemporary functioning today. The essay locates these exclusions not only in the failures of states but also in their proper functioning, that is, in their very design and constitutive structures, focusing for this purpose on what is described as constitutive exclusions. The essay argues that the relationship between legal agency and social and political agency needs further articulation within Benhabib’s jurisgenerative politics in order to properly address constitutive exclusions.

scholarly journals Pursuing Justice-Driven Inclusive Education Research: Disability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) in Early Childhood

2021 ◽  
pp. 027112142199083
Author(s):  
Hailey R. Love ◽  
Margaret R. Beneke
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Children Of Color ◽  
Educational Processes

Multiple scholars have argued that early childhood inclusive education research and practice has often retained racialized, ableist notions of normal development, which can undermine efforts to advance justice and contribute to biased educational processes and practices. Racism and ableism intersect through the positioning of young children of Color as “at risk,” the use of normalizing practices to “fix” disability, and the exclusion of multiply marginalized young children from educational spaces and opportunities. Justice-driven inclusive education research is necessary to challenge such assumptions and reduce exclusionary practices. Disability Critical Race Theory extends inclusive education research by facilitating examinations of the ways racism and ableism interdependently uphold notions of normalcy and centering the perspectives of multiply marginalized children and families. We discuss constructions of normalcy in early childhood, define justice-driven inclusive education research and its potential contributions, and discuss DisCrit’s affordances for justice-driven inclusive education research with and for multiply marginalized young children and families.

Exploring Approaches to Data Literacy Through a Critical Race Theory Perspective

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Britney Johnson ◽  
Ben Rydal Shapiro ◽  
Betsy DiSalvo ◽  
Annabel Rothschild ◽  
Carl DiSalvo
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Data Literacy
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