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  1. Critical Race Theory, Methodology, and Semiotics: The Analytical

    Abstract Over the last 30 years, Critical Race Theory (CRT) has been applied successfully as an analytical framework, through which, to explore matters of "race," racialization, and subordination in numerous fields. For CRT to continue to be relevant, there is a need to reorient it as a guiding analytical framework, to account for the ubiquity of digital technologies across liberal Western ...

  2. Critical Race Theory, Race Equity, and Public Health: Toward Antiracism

    Critical Race Theory has been adapted for use in several fields, including education and gender studies. Public health's tradition of championing social justice issues suggests that Critical Race Theory can provide powerful new tools for targeting racial and ethnic health inequities.

  3. Choosing a Topic

    General Guides to Choosing a Topic In addition to the Volokh and Falk books that were listed under Writing an Article - General Tips, the following are guides on finding a topic: Heather Meeker, Stalking the Golden Topic: A Guide to Locating and Selecting Topics for Legal Research Papers, 1996 UTAH L. REV. 917.

  4. Racial Inequality in Psychological Research: Trends of the Past and

    Abstract Race plays an important role in how people think, develop, and behave. In the current article, we queried more than 26,000 empirical articles published between 1974 and 2018 in top-tier cognitive, developmental, and social psychology journals to document how often psychological research acknowledges this reality and to examine whether people who edit, write, and participate in the ...

  5. Color Crit: Critical Race Theory and the History and Future of Colorism

    Abstract Critical race theory teaches that racism and racial inequality are constants in American society that stand outside of the prejudices of individuals. It argues that structures and institutions are primarily responsible for the maintenance of racial inequality. However, critical race theorists have neglected to formally examine and theorize colorism, a primary offshoot of racial ...

  6. Critical race theory: An effective framework for social work research

    Critical race theory (CRT) is a relevant theoretical framework for the field of social work, especially when investigating historically disenfranchised populations.

  7. Library Resources

    Critical Race Theory, instead, designates a much deeper reflection on the constitutive role of race in the legal, social, and aesthetic formations of US culture, including the cinema, where Bamboozled provides endless examples for discussion and analysis.

  8. PDF Critical Race Theory: Its Origins, History, and Importance to the

    Critical race Theory (CrT) originated in US law schools, bringing together issues of power, race, and racism to address the liberal notion of color blindness, and argues that ignoring racial difference maintains and perpetuates the status quo with its deeply institutionalized injustices to racial minorities. This essay introduces CrT as a theoretical frame by which to better understand ...

  9. PDF Critical Race Theory in Education

    Critical Race studies in education could be defined as a critique of racism as a system of oppression and exploitation that explores the historic and contemporary constructions and manifestations of race in our society with particular attention to how these issues are manifested in schools.

  10. LibGuides: Critical Race Theory: Subjects Related to CRT

    This guide provides an overview of research strategies and resources on the topic of Critical Race Theory at the UNC School of Law.

  11. Critical Race Theory Research Guide

    Topics covered include law review articles and student notes, seminar term papers, how to shift from research to writing, cite-checking others' work, publishing, and publicizing written works.

  12. Editorial: Critical Race Theory: Why Should We Care about Applying It

    While CRT refers to the social scientific approach to study race and racism in the society, PHCRP uses CRT concepts and methods for racial/ethnic health equity research. Specifically, and as one of the PHCRP three functional components (ie, race conscious orientation to research; four major focus areas; and CRT-derived lexicon), the four major ...

  13. Integrated Methods for Applying Critical Race Theory to Qualitative

    This methods paper offers a model for using Public Health Critical Race Praxis (PHCRP) and related critical methodologies (ie, feminist and decolonizing methods) to inform the conceptualization, methods, and dissemination of qualitative research undertaken in response to the evolving COVID-19 pandemic.

  14. Race and educational leadership: The influence of research methods and

    The prism of race enables us to add new educational leadership insights to the field associated with ethnicity, gender, culturally constructed notions of leadership, intersectionality and/or geographical location. The findings highlight implications for researching race and educational leadership.

  15. Library Guides: Literary Research: Critical Race Theory

    What is Critical Race Theory? "Critical race theory (CRT) is a multidisciplinary academic construct that assembles strong arguments about the connection among race, law, and white supremacy. CRT originated during the 1970s and stemmed from the frustration many legal scholars felt about the failure of civil rights legislation to resolve the key issues of the Jim Crow era, adequately and ...

  16. Critical race theory (CRT)

    Critical race theory, intellectual and social movement and framework of legal analysis based on the premise that race is a socially constructed category that is used to oppress and exploit people of color. Critical race theorists hold that racism is inherent in the law and legal institutions of the United States.

  17. PDF Critical race theory and its relevance for chemistry

    Critical race theory — an academic framework that serves to understand systemic racism in the USA and beyond — can help inform endeavours to advance justice and equity in the chemistry community.

  18. Critical Race Theory

    Critical Race Theory Critical race theory (CRT) is a scholarly and politically committed movement that takes as its starting point the centrality of race in American history and social life. CRT scholars focus on contemporary economic and political arrangements as well as the historic distribution of public and private resources.

  19. Exploring public health education's integration of critical race

    Objectives Therefore, to explore the current landscape of public health educational research that employs critical race theories, this study sought to conduct a scoping review investigating the current literature of public health pedagogical, instructional, and curricular efforts that utilize race and antiracist theorization principles as a means to administer public health education. More ...

  20. PDF Race, Racism, and Discrimination: Bridging Problems, Methods, and

    Research indicates that blacks may face group. opposing pressures to declaregreater attach-ment to their racial group or support for Contact and Interpersonal Interactions race-based social policies when speaking with a black interviewer (Anderson, Silver, A thirdbody of researchhas focusedon and Abramson 1988).

  21. The Meaning of "Racism"

    Abstract. This article explores the meanings of racism in the sociology of race/ethnicity and provides a descriptive framework for comparing theories of racism. The authors argue that sociologists use racism to refer to four constructs: (1) individual attitudes, (2) cultural schema, and two constructs associated with structural racism: (3 ...

  22. Critical Race Theory

    10 essay samples found. Critical Race Theory (CRT), a theoretical framework that examines societal structures through the lens of racialization, has garnered both support and criticism over the years. Essays could delve into the historical roots of CRT, its key principles, and its application in analyzing systemic racism and its manifestations ...

  23. Racism in the Structure of Everyday Worlds: A Cultural-Psychological

    Abstract Theory and research in cultural psychology highlight the need to examine racism not only "in the head" but also "in the world." Racism is often defined as individual prejudice, but racism is also systemic, existing in the advantages and disadvantages imprinted in cultural artifacts, ideological discourse, and institutional realities that work together with individual biases ...

  24. Who Benefits from Retirement Saving Incentives in the U.S.? Evidence on

    U.S. employers and the federal government devote over 1.5% of GDP annually toward promoting defined contribution (DC) retirement saving. Using a new employer-employee linked dataset covering millions of Americans, we show that this system of saving incentives benefits White workers and those with richer parents more than their similar-income coworkers who are Black or Hispanic or from lower ...