ABSTRACT

Appropriate for both students curious about Critical Race Theory (CRT) and established scholars, Critical Race Theory in Education is a valuable guide to how this theoretical lens can help better understand and seek solutions to educational inequity. While CRT has been established as a vital theoretical framework for understanding the ways race-neutral policies and laws sustain and promote racial inequity, questions around how to engage and use CRT remain. This second edition of Critical Race Theory in Education evaluates the role of CRT in the field of higher education, answering important questions about how we should understand and account for racial disparities in our school systems. Parts I and II trace the roots of CRT from the legal scholarship in which it originated to the educational discourse in which it now resides. A much-anticipated Part III examines contemporary issues in racial discourse and offers all-important practical methods for adopting CRT in the classroom.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

Critical Race Theory and Education: Singing a “New” Song

part I|46 pages

Critical Race Theory and Education in Context

part II|90 pages

Key Writings on Critical Race Theory in Education

chapter 4|22 pages

Critical Race Ethnography in Education

Narrative, Inequality, and the Problem of Epistemology

chapter 5|26 pages

Critical Race Theory beyond North America

Towards a Trans-Atlantic Dialogue on Racism and Antiracism in Educational Theory and Praxis

chapter 6|24 pages

Whose Culture Has Capital?

A Critical Race Theory Discussion of Community Cultural Wealth

part III|55 pages

Critical Race Theory at 20 Years

chapter 8|10 pages

A Focus on Higher Education

Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin and the New White Nationalism

chapter 9|25 pages

The New Racial Preferences

Rethinking Racial Projects

chapter 10|18 pages

Beyond the “Tenets”

Reconsidering Critical Race Theory in Higher Education Scholarship