ABSTRACT
Critical race quantitative intersectionality creates opportunities to increase impact in the areas of research, policy, and practice, as it transforms the manner in which “the numbers” are derived and framed while at the same time making data more palatable to policy-makers and practice-shapers. National datasets, like the census, help people understand changing demographics across time and space but are fraught with shortcomings. Critical Race Theory (CRT) is grounded in a set of principles based on facts, observations, and/or experiences that help people understand, explain, predict, and transform phenomena impacted by race and its intersection with other social categories—these tenets guide anti-racist and anti-oppressive scholarship. Critical race scholarship produced over the last three decades has effectively served to re-center discussion about race and racism across American institutions, making the language of microaggressions mainstream, articulating clear critiques of continued White supremacist intentions that mainstream media can parrot, and has impacted a wide range of public and private space.
