Lifting the “Claud-Lorraine Tint” over the Republic

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Pace Vetter
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Comprehensive System ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Early American ◽  
The Republic

Frances Wright makes several major contributions to political theory. She served as an essential transitional figure from republicanism to early American socialism. Wright outlined a comprehensive system of reform based on an epistemological method of inquiry. Although Alexis de Tocqueville is credited with anticipating aspects of what would become critical race theory, her devastating critique of slavery in America precedes his by several years and includes elements of critical race theory as well. Unlike Tocqueville, Wright also applies those principles to the plight of American women, which prefigures aspects of critical feminist theory. Wright presents an early version of intersectionality by portraying the oppression of women, the enslavement of African Americans, and the injustice of economic inequality as intertwined through institutionalized corruption.

Health Inequities in Historical Context: A Critical Race Theory Analysis of Diabetes among African Americans and American Indians

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-299
Author(s):  
Felicia M. Mitchell ◽  
Cindy Sangalang ◽  
Stephanie Lechuga-Peña ◽  
Kristina Lopez ◽  
David Beccera
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Health Inequities ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Theory Analysis

scholarly journals A discourse analysis of the College of Early Childhood educators communications: how do they shape the professional identity of Ontario's registered early childhood educators?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chanequa Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Early Childhood Educators ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory

The College of Early Childhood Educators (CECE) regulates registered early childhood educators (RECEs) in Ontario, Canada. The CECE distributes numerous communications to RECEs, whereby the text (both implicitly and explicitly) works to situate ECEs within a particular professional identity. This research study applies discourse analysis to code and categorize text from 66 communications disseminated by the CECE to RECEs. I identify five key discourses as well as several discursive strategies used to reinforce the discourses that contribute to the construction of a professional identity for Ontario RECEs. This study also employs two theoretical frameworks, feminist theory and critical race theory (CRT), to examine “what is not being said” by the CECE about the realities of RECE working conditions. I offer a counter-discourse to provide a narrative account of how particular RECE working conditions and real life professional experiences collide with the five discourses, and create a professional crisis in a current patchwork system. Keywords: professional identity, discourses, constructionism, feminist theory, critical race theory (CRT)

Teaching the counter story. An analysis of narration in African American cookbooks using Critical Race Theory

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-33
Author(s):  
Jill White
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Institutionalized Racism ◽  
The Right ◽  
Nutrition Educators ◽  
Good Food

As nutrition educators we must promote sensitivity to the historical roots of eating and food patterns.  This analysis of narratives from a sampling of cookbooks written by African Americans, represents an attempt to give voice to an unconventional source of documentation regarding the historical experiences of a people oppressed by enslavement and institutionalized racism as told through recipe sharing.  The themes that emerged from an examination of the missions and motivations of the authors included; history, work, cultural tradition, and empowerment in the struggle to survive. Critical Race Theory provided a lens to examine the counter story told by these authors. The counter story documented the unrecognized contributions of African Americans to the culture of all food practices in America, through their roles as cooks in domestic and industrial settings, as well as their own homes.  We need to develop an appreciation of the celebration of life that is expressed through food in the African American community.  And we must advocate for the right to good food, healthcare and education for all of the communities and people we serve.

The Misintegration of the Negro: A Historical Analysis of Black Male Habitus in Sport and Schooling

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 745-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin P. Smith ◽  
Louis Harrison ◽  
Anthony L. Brown
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Black Males ◽  
Black Male ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Board Of Education ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Mainstream Society

Drawing from the lenses of critical race theory (CRT) and Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of habitus, this article compares the Jackie Robinson story with the Brown versus Board of Education narrative. This juxtaposition illustrates the similarities of these narratives and how interests converged racially. By comparing these historical narratives, we show that there are significant racial contingencies African Americans must internalize to integrate into society. In this sense, we argue that the Jackie Robinson story serves as a powerful and problematic pedagogy for Black males to be part of mainstream society—what we call “expected racial habitus.”

scholarly journals The Obligation Thesis: Understanding the Persistent “Black Voice” in Modern Legal Scholarship

2007 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Bell
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Rigorous Analysis ◽  
Legal Scholarship ◽  
Narrative Perspective ◽  
Sense Of Obligation

This Article revisits the debate over minority voice scholarship, particularly African-American scholarship, that raged in the late 1980s and early 1990s with the advent of critical race theory (CRT). Many critical race theorists elevated the voices of minority scholars, arguing that scholarship in the minority voice should be accorded greater legitimacy than work on race produced by white intellectuals. Many white and some African-American scholars disagreed with “Crits’” analyses. They charged that good scholarship by African Americans should be judged as a fact-in itself, not ghettoized or subjected to less rigorous analysis than scholarship by white academics. This Article explores the work of four current up-and-coming black legal scholars to revisit that early disagreement and its ramifications in the modern black legal academy. By and large, it appears that the anti-CRT writers have won the debate. Today’s legal academy, at least as reflected in the work of many highly sought-after black scholars, more closely reflects the anti-narrative perspective on scholarship. Black scholars continue to write on racial topics, but with different methodologies than many CRT scholars. Like other areas of legal scholarship, interdisciplinary and doctrinal methods are most prevalent. The Article suggests that one reason African-American legal scholars continue to write about race, despite the risks of doing so, is their sense of obligation to the black community. I contend that this obligation runs just as deeply for black academics as it does for black practitioners, who tend to closely relate the legal profession with the struggle for racial justice.

13. Critical legal theory

2020 ◽  
pp. 344-369
Author(s):  
Raymond Wacks
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Natural Order ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Critical Legal Studies ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Critical Legal Theory

Critical legal theory rejects what is generally regarded as the natural order of things, be it the free market (in the case of Critical Legal Studies), ‘meta-narratives’ (postmodernism), the conception of ‘race’ (Critical Race Theory), and patriarchy (in the case of feminist jurisprudence). Critical legal theorists share a profound scepticism about many of the questions that have long been regarded as at the core of legal theory. This chapter touches on the first three of these movements. It first discusses the development of critical legal studies and then turns to postmodern legal theory, considering the views of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas. It then outlines the principal claims of Critical Race Theory (CRT), and considers the relationships between CRT and feminist theory and CRT and postmodernism.

Excluded Within

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sina Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Political Agents

Why are some claims seen or heard as political claims, while others are not? Why are some people not seen or heard as political agents? And how does their political unintelligibility shape political bodies, and the terms of political agency, from which they are excluded? Excluded Within: The (Un)Intelligibility of Radical Political Actors argues that these people, and these claims, are excluded within these political bodies and terms of political agency. They remain within and continue to do the work of defining the terms of the bodies from which they are excluded. But because their remaining within these bodies is disavowed or repressed, these potentially radical actors are politically unintelligible to those bodies. This rich and methodologically creative work draws on philosophy, critical theory, feminist theory, and critical race theory to articulate who we are by virtue of who we exclude, and what claims we cannot see, hear, or understand.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document