Abstract
Critical Race Theory emerged in the mid-1970s and has its origins in the Legal
Critical Studies and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s in the U.S. Legal
scholars scrutinized how law upheld the white privilege, regarding race, gender,
class, and social justice, rather than following the principles of law. Critical
Race Theory also draws from critical theory, post-colonialism, continental
social, and political philosophy, and feminism, which in turn, gave rise to
Critical Race Feminism; LatCrit; AsianCrit; and Queer RaceCrit theories. This
paper gives an overview and discusses the evolution of Critical Race Theory: its
basic premise; the main themes; and some notable fiction and non-fiction works
that operationalize the theory. Finally, it concludes that Critical Race Theory
may be a specific framework meant particularly for Afro-American Studies in the
U.S. but it can be appropriated and used as a methodological and theoretical
tool kit for inquiry in any geographical and literary context.
Anoosh W. Khan. (2016) Critical Race Theory: The Intersectionality of Race, Gender and Social Justice, Putaj Humanities And Social Science, Volume-23, Issue-1.
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