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'Race is race ain't': An exploration of the utility of critical race theory in qualitative research in education
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This paper used Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the higher education affirmative action debate surrounding the Hopwood v. T exas decision (1996) to explain the social construction and operation of racism in educational institutions.Abstract:
Critical race theory (CRT) has garnered increasing attention from various circles and disciplines as an emerging perspective in jurisprudence scholarship addressing race. CRT scholarship encompasses and borrows from a myriad set of sociopolitical and philosophical critiques that challenge the objective reality of the law and of legal doctrine and interpretation. CRT scholars have argued that racism is an endemic part of U.S. social relations and this racism has shaped the laws and policies of U.S. institutions.Recently, scholars in education have started to explore the utility of CRT and the ways theories about race can explain the social construction and operation of racism in educational institutions.This paper continues this inquiry by briefly illustrating how CRT can be used in the higher education affirmative action debate surrounding the Hopwood v . T exas decision (1996). Specifically,the presentationof definitive race-neutral legal interpretations of narratives vs. counterstories of race is discus...read more
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Race, Culture, and Researcher Positionality: Working Through Dangers Seen, Unseen, and Unforeseen
TL;DR: The authors introduce a framework to guide researchers into a process of racial and cultural awareness, consciousness, and positionality as they conduct education research, arguing that dangers seen, unseen, and unforeseen can emerge for researchers when they do not pay careful attention to their own and others' racialized and cultural systems of coming to know, knowing, and experiencing the world.
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Toward a Tribal Critical Race Theory in Education
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The (Racially Neutral) Politics of Education: A Critical Race Theory Perspective
TL;DR: In this article, critical race theory has not spread significantly into the field of educational leadership, where the discourse on diversity has failed to penetrate the saliency of racism in schooling, and the purpose of this article is to confront the silence on race in schools and to summon scholars in the politics of education to critical analysis of race as an issue in public schools.
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An Apartheid of Knowledge in Academia: The Struggle over the "Legitimate" Knowledge of Faculty of Color.
TL;DR: The process of determining what is "legitimate knowledge" and for what purpose that knowledge should be produced is a political debate that rages in the University as an institution.
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Access and Equity for African American Students in Higher Education: A Critical Race Historical Analysis of Policy Efforts.
TL;DR: In this paper, access and equity for African American students in higher education: A Critical Race Historical Analysis of Policy Efforts is presented. The Journal of Higher Education: Vol. 80, No. 4, pp. 389-414.
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The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
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Racial formation in the United States : from the 1960s to the 1980s
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