Founded by the late Derrick Bell, critical race theory is an academic discipline which maintains that society is divided along racial lines into (white) oppressors and (black) victims, similar to the way Marxism frames the oppressor/victim dichotomy along class lines. Critical race theory contends that America is permanently racist to its core, and that consequently the […]
Founded by the late Derrick Bell, critical race theory is an academic discipline which maintains that society is divided along racial lines into (white) oppressors and (black) victims, similar to the way Marxism frames the oppressor/victim dichotomy along class lines. Critical race theory contends that America is permanently racist to its core, and that consequently the nation’s legal structures are, by definition, racist and invalid. As Emory University professor Dorothy Brown puts it, critical race theory “seeks to highlight the ways in which the law is not neutral and objective but designed to support white supremacy and the subordination of people of color.” A logical derivative of this premise, according to critical race theory, is that the members of “oppressed” racial groups are entitled—in fact obligated—to determine for themselves which laws and traditions have merit and are worth observing. Further, critical race theory holds that because racism is so deeply ingrained in the American character, classical liberal ideals such as meritocracy, equal opportunity, and colorblind justice are essentially nothing more than empty slogans that fail to properly combat—or to even acknowledge the existence of—the immense structural inequities that pervade American society and work against black people. Thus, according to critical race theorists, racial preferences (favoring blacks) in employment and higher education are not only permissible but necessary as a means of countering the permanent bigotry of white people who, as Bell put it, seek to “achieve a measure of social stability through their unspoken pact to keep blacks on the bottom.”
RESOURCES:
Critical Race Theory: A Cult of Anti-White Resentment
By John T. Bennett
March 22, 2012
We Have Ted Cruz’s List: Harvard Law ReallyIs Littered with Communists
By Matthew Vadum
March 5, 2013
Critical Race Theory Briefing Book
By Christopher Rufo
Critical Race Theory, the New Intolerance, and Its Grip on America
By Jonathan Butcher and Mike Gonzalez (Heritage Foundation)
December 7, 2020
Critical Race Theory: What It Is and How to Fight It
By Christopher Rufo
March 2021
Critical Race Theory’s Marxist Roots
By Bruce Thornton
Where Did Critical Race Theory Get Its Start?
By Brianna Lyman
June 24, 2021
Critical Race Theory: A Cult of Anti-White Resentment
By John T. Bennett
March 22, 2012
You Are Not a Racist to Criticize Critical Race Theory
By John McWhorter
June 16, 2021
Critical Race Theory: As ‘Pseudo’ as Pseudoscience Gets
By Allen Gindler
December 11, 2020
Institutionalizing Critical Race Theory
By Clare Lopez
April
Critical Race Theory May Violate Civil Rights Act, the Constitution: Dr. Carol Swain
By Ella Kietlinska and Joshua Philipp
June 22, 2021
Marxist “Critical Race Theory” Seeps Into U.S. Courts
By GianCarlo Canaparo and Hans von Spakovsky
December 23, 2020
Feeling Guilty About Everything? Thank Critical Race Theory
By Jonathan Butcher and Mike Gonzalez
December 7, 2020
How Civil Rights Made America a Critical Race Theocracy
By Daniel Greenfield
July 2, 2021
Black Lives Matter: Not Just Communist, But Viciously Anti-Semitic Too
By Clare Lopez
June 29, 2020
Critical Race Theory & Education:
Weaponizing Our Schools: Critical Race Theory and the Racist Assault on American Students (pamphlet)
By Richard L. Cravatts
2021
Tackling Critical Race Theory: What It Is and Where It Is Being Banned
By December 2, 2021
Critical Race Theory in American Classrooms
By Max Eden
September 18, 2020
Jennifer Ruth’s Useful Idiocy
By Stanley K. Ridgley
March 8, 2022
Biracial Student Fails Critical Race Theory Class for Refusing to Confess His ‘White Dominance,’ Mom Claims
By Breck Dumas
March 11, 2021
The Monster Is in the Classroom
By Erika Sanzi
April 30, 2021
Marxism in the Classroom, Riots in the Streets
By Clare Lopez
July 25, 2020
California Schools Kowtow to Black Lives Matter’s Marxist Agenda
By Clare Lopez
August 28, 2020
The Only Ones Banning Books are Critical Race Theorists
By Daniel Greenfield
February 3, 2022
Videos:
The Hate of Critical Race Theory
Jamie Glazov interviews Clare Lopez
May 2, 2021
Critical Race Theory: On the New Ideology of Race
The Manhattan Institute (a discussion with Ralph Richard Banks, Randall Kennedy, John McWhorter, Jason Riley, & Christopher Rufo)
December 16, 2020
The New Intolerance: Critical Race Theory and Its Grip on America
The Heritage Foundation (a discussion with Lindsey Burke, Jonathan Butcher, Mike Gonzalez, Christopher Rufo, & Angela Sailor)
January 11, 2021
What Is Critical Race Theory?
By James Lindsay (Prager University)
April 26, 2021
Where Did Critical Race Theory Come From?
Interview with James Simpson
July 13, 2021
Black Father Explodes At Critical Race Theory During School Board Meeting
June 17, 2021
Largest Teachers Union Endorses CRT Curriculum Nationwide
By Prager University
July 12, 2021