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'Race is race ain't': An exploration of the utility of critical race theory in qualitative research in education

Laurence Parker
- 01 Jan 1998 - 
- Vol. 11, Iss: 1, pp 43-55
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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.
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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...

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Handbook of Qualitative Research

TL;DR: The discipline and practice of qualitative research have been extensively studied in the literature as discussed by the authors, including the work of Denzin and Denzin, and their history in sociology and anthropology, as well as the role of women in qualitative research.
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TL;DR: In this article, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe and provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde.
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Black Skin, White Masks

Frantz Fanon
TL;DR: Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks as discussed by the authors is a major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, and is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world.
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TL;DR: The Black Atlantic as mentioned in this paper is a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but all of these at once; a black Atlantic culture whose themes and techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality to produce something new and, until now, unremarked.
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Racial formation in the United States : from the 1960s to the 1980s

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