ABSTRACT

This handbook illustrates how education scholars employ Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a framework to bring attention to issues of race and racism in education. It is the first authoritative reference work to provide a truly comprehensive description and analysis of the topic, from the defining conceptual principles of CRT in Law that gave shape to its radical underpinnings to the political and social implications of the field today. It is divided into six sections, covering innovations in educational research, policy and practice in both schools and in higher education, and the increasing interdisciplinary nature of critical race research. New chapters broaden the scope of theoretical lenses to include LatCrit, AsianCrit and Critical Race Feminism, as well as coverage of Discrit Studies, Research Methods, and other recent updates to the field. This handbook remains the definitive statement on the state of critical race theory in education and on its possibilities for the future.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

section Section I|83 pages

Foundations of Critical Race Theory and Critical Race Theory in Education

chapter 4|18 pages

Critical Race Theory's Intellectual Roots

My Email Epistolary With Derrick Bell

chapter 5|17 pages

W.E.B. Du Bois's Contributions to Critical Race Studies in Education

Sociology of Education, Classical Critical Race Theory, and Proto-Critical Pedagogy

section Section II|158 pages

Intersectional Frameworks

chapter 7|15 pages

SquadGoals

Intersectionality, Mentorship, and Women of Color in the Academy

chapter 8|17 pages

Critical Race Theory Offshoots

Building on the Foundations of CRT and Emphasizing the Nuances They Offer

chapter 10|17 pages

Examining Black Male Identity Through a Prismed Lens

Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, and the Complexities of Black Males' Experiences

chapter 11|13 pages

Other Kids' Teachers

What Children of Color Learn From White Women and What This Says About Race, Whiteness, and Gender

chapter 12|13 pages

The Last Plantation

Toward a New Understanding of the Relationship Between Race, Major College Sports, and American Higher Education

chapter 14|12 pages

Tribal Critical Race Theory

An Origin Story and Future Directions

chapter 15|18 pages

“Straight, No Chaser”

An Unsung Blues

chapter 17|13 pages

A DisCrit Abolitionist Imaginary

CRT, DisCrit, and the Abolition of Youth Prisons

section Section III|94 pages

Methods/Praxis

chapter 18|17 pages

Blurring Boundaries

The Creation of Composite Characters in Critical Race Storytelling

chapter 19|11 pages

No Longer Just a Qualitative Methodology

The Rise of Critical Race Quantitative and Mixed-Methods Approaches

chapter 20|17 pages

Critical Race Quantitative Intersectionality

A Toiling Movement-Building Paradigm That Refuses to “Let the Numbers Speak for Themselves”

chapter 21|12 pages

Confronting Our Own Complicity

Complexities and Tensions of a Critical Race Feminista Praxis in Higher Education During the Movement for Black Lives

chapter 22|13 pages

Still “Fightin' the Devil 24/7”

Context, Community, and Critical Race Praxis in Education

chapter 23|9 pages

Countering They Schools

The Convergence of Dead Prez and The Matrix as a Method of Promoting a Critical Conscious Intellectualism in the Social Justice Education Project/Tucson's Mexican American/Raza Studies Program

chapter 24|13 pages

Critical Race Theory and Education History

Constructing a Race-Centered History of School Desegregation

section Section IV|97 pages

Critical Race Policy Analysis

chapter 25|10 pages

The Policy of Inequity

Using CRT to Unmask White Supremacy in Education Policy

chapter 26|9 pages

A Call to “Do Justice”

A CRT Analysis of Urban Teacher Preparation

chapter 28|15 pages

Let's Be for Real

Critical Race Theory, Racial Realism, and Education Policy Analysis (Toward a New Paradigm)

chapter 30|13 pages

Badges of Inferiority

The Racialization of Achievement in U.S. Education

chapter 31|10 pages

Racial Failure Normalized as Correlational Racism

CRT/LatCrit and the Education Policy Attack Against Latinx Populations

chapter 32|13 pages

A Movement in Two Acts

Actually Existing Racism, Critical Race Theory, and the Charter School Movement