RE-IGNITING CRITICAL RACE IN CANADIAN LEGAL SPACES: INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM ISSUE OF CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS OF RACIALIZATION IN CANADA (original) (raw)

Twenty Years of Critical Race Theory: Looking Back To Move Forward

Conn. L. Rev., 2011

This Article revisits the history of Critical Race Theory (CRT) through a prism that highlights its historical articulation in light of the emergence of postracialism. The Article will explore two central inquiries. This first query attends to the specific contours of law as the site out of which CRT emerged. The Article hypothesizes that legal discourse presented a particularly legible template from which to demystify the role of reason and the rule of law in upholding the racial order. The second objective is to explore the contemporary significance of CRT's trajectory in light of today's "post-racial" milieu. The Article posits that CRT emerged between the pillars of liberal racial reform and Critical Legal Studies and that other conditions of its possibility included the temporal, institutional, and ideological nature of race discourse in the mid-eighties. Turning to the contemporary period, the Article posits that the post-racial turn presents conditions that are both parallel to and distinct from those that prevailed during CRTs formative years, and that the challenge of a contemporary CRT is to synthesize a transdisciplinary critique and counter-narrative to the post-racial settlement.

Critical Race Theory: A Commemoration

2011

is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations and chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is dedicated to bringing a fresh view of culture and society to the public through various platforms such as guest lecturing at universities, television programs (i.e., History Detectives), and interactive social media. Currently, he works on human rights initiatives by participating in public speaking engagements, international collaborations with transnational organizations, and individuals dedicated to human equality. Professor Zuberi has written extensively on race, African and African Diaspora populations. He was awarded the 2009 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award for his co-edited volume, White Logic, White Methods. I See A. LEON HIGGINBOTHAM, JR., IN THE MATTER OF COLOR: RACE AND THE AMERICAN LEGAL PROCESS 390 (1978) (recounting inter alia that the United States was created with the notion that all men are created equal yet "began its experiment in self-government with a legacy of more than one-half million enslaved [B]lacks-persons denied citizenship and enslaved. .. solely as a matter of color"). 2 See DERRICK BELL, AND WE ARE NOT SAVED: THE ELUSIVE QUEST FOR RACIAL JUSTICE 7 (1987) (discussing the "Constitutional Contradiction" and "the concerns that likely led even those Framers opposed to slavery to sanction its recognition in a Constitution whose Preamble pledges to 'secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity"'). 3 See, e.g., CRITICAL RACE THEORY: THE CUTTING EDGE, at xv-xvi (Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic eds., 2d ed. 2000) (observing that CRT "challeng[es] racial orthodoxy, shak[es] up the legal academy, question[s] comfortable liberal premises, and lead[s] the search for new ways of thinking about [the United States'] most intractable, and insoluble, problem-race"); CRITICAL RACE THEORY: THE KEY WRITINGS THAT FORMED THE MOVEMENT, at xiii (Kimberld Crenshaw et al. eds., 1995) [hereinafter CRITICAL RACE THEORY: THE KEY WRITINGS] ("As we conceive it, Critical Race Theory embraces a movement of. .. scholars. .. whose work challenges the ways in which race and racial power are constructed and represented in American legal culture and, more generally, in American society as a whole.").

1 the History and Conceptual Elements of Critical Race Theory

2017

While the roots of the scholarship of critical race theory (CRT) can be traced to earlier writings, the first meeting occurred in the summer of 1989 in Madison, Wisconsin. Twenty-three legal scholars of color met for a weeklong workshop (Crenshaw, 2011). As with any intellectual movement, CRT was born out of the confluence of historical developments of the time and the need to respond to those developments. Thus, in order to understand the scholarship produced by CRT, it is necessary to start with those historical events.

INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL ISSUE What’s so critical about critical race theory?

2008

Taylor and Francis GCJR_A_285181.sgm 10.1080/10282580701850330 Contemporary Justice Review 28-2580 (pri t)/1477-2248 (online) Original Article 2 0 & Francis 1 0 000Ma ch 2008 A.JavierTrevino jtrev o@wheatonma.edu As a bourgeoning and widely recognized critical-emancipationist program, critical race theory (CRT) retains its commitment to treating the social construction of race as central to the way that people of color are ordered and constrained in society. In advocating for justice for such ‘minority’ populations as Blacks, Latinos, Asians, gays, Indians, and women of color, CRT has in recent years ramified into several area programs including Latino/a critical studies, critical queer studies, critical race feminism, and critical White studies. Despite its important analytical and activist breakthroughs in rooting out racial injustice, we argue that CRT needs to sharpen its critical edge. In order to do so, it must confront and resolve the three problems of (1) the rule of law, (2...

Patricia Williams: Inflecting Critical Race Theory

Feminist Legal Studies, 1999

ABSTRACT. Critical Race Theory (CRT) has developed out of a deep dissatisfaction that many black legal scholars in the US felt with liberal civil rights discourse, a discourse premised upon the ideals of assimilation, 'colour-blindness' and integration. In addition, the emergence of ...

Critical Philosophy of Race: An Introduction (special section)

Journal of Intercultural Studies, 2019

This special section brings together scholars working in Critical Philosophy of Race to explore questions of racism, coloniality, and migration, and in doing so, offers a glimpse into some of the scholarship currently being undertaken in this emerging field. The section has its origins in a one-day workshop, On Anti-Racism: A Critical Philosophy of Race Symposium, which took place in Narrm/Melbourne, Australia in October 2017. The symposium participants, Amir Jaima, Helen Ngo, and Bryan Mukandi, are here joined by Lori Gallegos and Chelsea Bond, in an effort to continue and extend some of the conversations initiated at that event.

Critical Race Theory Today: A Roundtable Conversation

Journal of Critical Race Inquiry, 2022

On November 30th, 2022, JCRI convened a roundtable conversation with critical race scholars Sue Shon, Vidya Shah, Deanna Reder, and Jules Gill-Peterson to discuss Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a personal and theoretical orientation. Moderated by Juliane Okot-Bitek and Kesha Fevrier, the conversation explored CRT’s personal and theoretical resonance, how to understand the intersections of recent attacks on CRT in relation to other forms of violence and attacks on people’s bodily dignity, and how scholars and educators might best respond to the challenges of the present moment.

The Potential and Limitations of Critical Race Theory1

(RCP) Rethinking Critical Pedagogy, 2020

This article examines the potentials and limitations of critical race theory in terms of its capacity to foster a more just, free, and democratic society. The article analyzes impacts of critical race theory on education as well as the daily life of citizens. The article argues that from 1980 onward, the anti-racist movement in the U.S. lost its revolutionary vision and became domesticated. The article concludes that critical race theory is not revolutionary but a petit bourgeois standpoint.