Critical Race Theory

Nicola Rollock; Adrienne Dixson

Critical Race Theory

Nicola Rollock, Adrienne Dixson

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Abstract

Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a body of scholarship steeped in radical activism that seeks to explore and challenge the prevalence of racial inequality in society. Central to CRT is the understanding that race and racism are the product of social thought and power relations. Racism is understood to operate through structures and assumptions that appear entirely normal and unremarkable to most people in society. Scholars of CRT work, therefore, to challenge and expose dominant narratives of race that permit and legitimise the existence of racism.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies
Editors	Nancy Naples
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN (Print)	9781405196949
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 27 Nov 2015

Keywords

intersectionality
whiteness
race inequality
racism

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Critical Race Theory

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