Critical Race Theory

Begin this unit by viewing our presentation on Critical Race Theory.

Slides and Notes for the presentation on Critical RaceTheory 

 View the video below for additional background on Critical Race Theory.

Recommended Sources for Additional Research: 

Bell, Derrick A. “Who’s Afraid of Critical Race Theory?” University of Illinois Law Review 4 (1995): 893-910. 

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo (1997). "Rethinking Racism: Toward a Structural 

Interpretation". American Sociological Review. 62 (3): 465–480. 

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo (2014). Racism without Racists. Lanham: Rowman & 

Littlefield Publishers. 

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo (2017-05-01). "What We Were, What We Are, and 

What We Should Be: The Racial Problem of American Sociology". Social 

Problems. 64 (2): 179–187.

Crenshaw, Kimberlé, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, and Kendall Thomas, eds. Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement. New York: The New Press, 1995 

Davis, Peggy. “Law as Microaggression.” Yale Law Journal 98 (1989): 1559- 1577. 

Delgado, Richard and Jean Stefancic. Critical Race Theory: An Introduction. 

2nd ed. New York: New York University Press, 2012. 

Delgado, Richard and Jean Stefancic, eds. Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge. 3rd ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013. Print. 

Gates, Henry Louis. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 

Harris, Cheryl. “Whiteness as Property.” Harvard Law Review 106.8 (1993): 1707-1791. 

hooks, bell. Feminist Theory: From the Margins to the Center. Boston: South End Press, 1984. 

Lipsitz, George. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. 

Spillers, Hortense. “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book.” Diacritics 17.2 (1987): 64-81. 

Williams, Patricia. Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race. New

York: Noonday Press, 1998.

COMMON QUESTIONS

• How does the text explore the issues of race and racism?

• How does the text represent the disparity between races?

• How does the text explore the continuation of oppressive social structures that disadvantage certain races?

• How does the majority race in the text enable the continued oppression of minority races?

• How does the text include and/or speak to racial stereotypes?

• How does the text speak to the social construction of race?