Concept

Critical race theory

Overview

a conceptual framework developed to understand the relationships between social conceptions of race and ethnicity, which also considers racism to be systemic in various laws and rules, not based only on individuals' prejudices

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Critical race theory

• Lewis Gordon
• Camillo Berneri
• Naomi Zack

Related ideas

• John Gray (philosopher)
• Philosophy
• Hate speech
• Interdisciplinarity
• Harvard Law School
• Jurisprudence
• Southern United States
• Law enforcement
• Thomas Sowell
• Liberalism
• Social constructionism
• Meritocracy
• Hypothesis
• University of Edinburgh
• Postmodernism
• Political science
• Racism
• Race (human categorization)
• Thomas Kuhn
• Instrumentalism
• Structuralism
• Sexual orientation
• Sojourner Truth
• Institution

Opposing perspectives

• Narrative

Place in the tradition

Part of Africana philosophy.

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