ABSTRACT
THE BEGINNING OF CRT IN EDUCATION In the summer of 1993, William F. Tate and I submitted a proposal for the 1994 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). AERA was soliciting new forms of presentation so we selected a different format-the advanced paper session. This format called for prospective attendees to write authors in advance for their papers so that these sessions would be in-depth discussions of papers all the session attendees had previously read. Unfortunately, no one wrote for a copy of our paper, and Tate and I believed no one would show up to our session. It turned out that we were wrong. The session, bearing the title of the paper, “Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education” (TCRTE), was standing room only, and we had to discuss its substance with a group who were unfamiliar with the paper.
