Critical theorists set about the task of transforming society and freeing the individual from the yoke of oppressive capitalist regimes and ideologies that, in their eyes, turned human beings into a cog in the machine and plunged all of humanity into a cog. vicious circle of violence. and barbarism (Bronner, 2011).
Thus, the critical race theory movement draws on theoretical insights from critical race theory. This movement encompasses a collection of activists and scholars committed to studying and transforming the relationship between race, racism, and power.
The movement considers many of the same issues that conventional civil rights and ethnic studies discourses address, but places them in a broader perspective that includes economics, history, environment, group and self-interest, and emotions and the unconscious (Thin).
1. Race is an analytical category because race, as Ladson-Billing and Tate stated, “continues to be an important factor in determining inequality in the United States.
2. Race is a social and not a biological construction. As a social construction, race is not biologically determined. There is no correlation between the color of a person’s skin and their degree of intelligence, ingenuity, economic or social condition (as biogenetics tried to convince us for centuries). Race is an abstract conception constructed through an ideological belief in the racial hierarchy between people. Race is, therefore, ‘a creation of society’ and not a biological fact.
3. For critical race theorists, racism is not an individual act carried out superficially by a fanatic towards a person from a minority racial group. It is more of an institutional problem. As Kimberle Williams Crenshaw fixed, critical race theorists are primarily concerned with systematic and institutionalized racism. So the problem, like Mari Matsuda disputedIt is not bad people, rather it is “a system that reproduces bad results”.
4. Rejection of color blindness. Racial color blindness promotes the idea that society has outgrown the concept of race (post-race era) and that “skin color does not matter in today’s society” (Neville and others).
Critical race theorists and sociologists decline the ideology of color blindness because it “denies the negative racial experiences of people of color, rejects their heritage, and invalidates their unique perspectives.” Since racial issues are not always easy to discuss, the notion of color blindness, as Runner explains, it’s often used as a way to “disengage completely from conversations about race and racism.”
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