Critical Race Theory (CRT) is suddenly the term on the thin, pinched lips of all the racust, xenophobic, misogynistic GOPhux "White People" and Trumpanzees. It occupies space in the "Critical Theory" spectrum ithat includes "Critical Gender Theory" and "Critical Class Theory." There are also "Critters" in law, history, economics and social theory.
Like Critical Theory, generally, CRT involves the active, multi-sourced, wide-ranging interrogation of common-place institutional phenomena--actions, ideologies, and discursive practices of civic entities--to reveal what is concealed in the quotidian discourses on any subject, and especially the kinds of elisions that are suppressed or ignored in issues of oppression on the bases of race, class, and/or gender at which USer culture has bewcome punishingly adept over the first 400 years.
The implication of these investigations is that "Critical Theory," generally, and praxis based in and upon it, can begin to unravel the knots that hold people--in Ed, of course, especially kids--back.
In a nut-shell, CRT reveals that just about everything of which "minorities" have been complaining about how they are and have been systematically and systemically abused, oppressed, and demeaned by dominant WHITE culture for the past 400 years is basically true, both in general and in the details.
For instance, one need only examine "lynchings," in their proper, historical situations.
There is a rich literature.
To begin the odyessy, start with Souls of Black Folk, by DuBois; especially, recommend trying to get into the "spirit" of "double consciousness," for a look at the historicity of the phenomenon and the humanity of its victims.
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