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1/Since it’s not clear whether the racist-in-chief knows what #CriticalRaceTheory is, I thought I’d share some influential scholars that I teach in my evil, un-American CRT classes
2/Ian Haney Lopez’s “White By Law” — not sure how much ppl want to quibble that Lopez is more of a legal scholar than a #CriticalRaceTheory scholar but I’d say categories aren’t as important as impact https://nyupress.org/9780814736944/white-by-law-10th-anniversary-edition/">https://nyupress.org/978081473...
3/ @sandylocks is of course widely known as the foundational theorist for Intersectionality, which is of course also #CriticalRaceTheory — at least I don’t think one should teach CRT without teaching intersectionality, which means you have to teach this https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality/discussion">https://www.ted.com/talks/kim...
4/ Michael Omi & Howard Winant’s “Racial Formation in the United States” has gone through 3 editions, and the latest version is 75% different than the 1st, showing how reputable scholars keep up with the changing times—and #CriticalRaceTheory shows this
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5/Mari Matsuda, Richard Delgado, Charles Lawrence III, and @sandylocks have written individually and collectively about #CriticalRaceTheory—one of the things I appreciate about CRT is the collaborative scholarship that emerges, something I wish I did more https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/mari-j-matsuda/words-that-wound/9780813384283/">https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ma...
6/I saw Devon Carbado deliver a talk from his co-written book with Mitu Gulati at ASA in Los Angeles and it was brilliant #CriticalRaceTheory at its best https://global.oup.com/academic/product/acting-white-9780195382587?cc=us&lang=en&">https://global.oup.com/academic/...
7/Barbara Christian wrote in “Black Feminist Criticism” that there are many different ways to do theory, esp. for Black ppl, and often that theory is in stories (loose paraphrase) so when I teach #CriticalRaceTheory I always quote her and include stories
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8/Eduardo Bonilla Silva’s “Racism without Racists” is of course a classic work of #CriticalRaceTheory — and he’s incredibly kind as well https://rowman.com/isbn/9781442276239/racism-without-racists-color-blind-racism-and-the-persistence-of-racial-inequality-in-america-fifth-edition">https://rowman.com/isbn/9781...
9/Jodi Byrd’s “The Transit of Empire” is also a must read and important to include in discussions of #CriticalRaceTheory bc Indigeneity is centrally about sovreignty—Indigenous ppl have been racialized and their land was stolen and settled on https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-transit-of-empire">https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-divi...
10/There’s so many others I could include like the poets I’ve taught in my #CriticalRaceTheory classes, @rocketfantastic @PaisleyRekdal Natasha Trethaway, Matthew Olzmann and the novelists, Leslie Marmon Silko, Danzy Senna, Ruth Ozeki but I hope others add to this list
