Demystifying Critical Race Theory
Activists on both sides have an incentive to keep Critical Race Theory undefined and ambiguous.
Josh Yuter
· 18 min read
critical race theory
A collection of 7 posts
Virtuous Lies and Black Despair
Many leftists claim that black Americans are crushed beneath a vast, racist social machinery. It is hard to imagine a more demoralizing message.
Julian Adorney
· 10 min read
British and Black
Contemporary antiracism imposes an American framework that distorts our understanding of racial issues in different countries.
Ralph Leonard
· 12 min read
Critical Race Theory Has a Scholarship Problem
For many critical theorists, the true dividing line isn't privileged people versus the oppressed; it's people who agree with them versus those whose motives cannot be trusted.
Julian Adorney
· 7 min read
Critical Race Theory Wasn’t Always Like This
The version of CRT that I studied in the 1990s offered a useful critique of American institutions—rather than a moral condemnation of American souls.
Jonathan Kay
· 6 min read
No, Critical Race Theory Isn’t a New Civil Rights Movement. (Just the Opposite)
The difference between the civil rights movement and CRT isn’t one of degree or shade. It’s foundational.
Kenny Xu and Christian Watson
· 7 min read
Radical Moderate: The Struggle for Martin Luther King's Legacy
If activists are embarrassed by constitutional norms, religious devotion, and American virtues, then what are the values around which a progressive movement can hope to organise?
Robert Showah
· 17 min read