ABSTRACT
Critical race theory (CRT), consistent with this popular-cultural imagination, situates race at the center of social analysis. Differences such as social class, gender, ethnicity, and language are acknowledged and understood as dimensions of intersectionality that impact how race shapes policy and everyday life; however, race is the primary object of analysis, and explanations of social phenomena are primarily offered through a racial lens. Critical race theorists have responded to these critiques in a number of ways, challenging what they contend are a number of reductionist misrepresentations of CRT and reasserting the need to interrogate White supremacy as a “totalizing” frame for understanding racism, akin to the scrutiny of capitalism in critical class analyses. Marxian theorists would emphasize that this stands in contrast t.
