ABSTRACT
The vignette shared previously occurred over 15 years ago when Judith was an undergraduate student. Critical race theory (CRT) in education should be seen as a critique of racism in the law and society as applied to K–12 schooling and higher education. The writings in this area emerged from critical race theory’s origins, which focused on its racial critique of the formalized legal traditions of legal theory and adjudication. CRT scholars argued that conceptions of race and racial discrimination were daily facts of life in society and the ideology and assumptions of racism are so ingrained in the political and legal structures as to be almost unrecognizable. Legal racial designations have complex historical and socially constructed meanings that ensure the location of political superiority of racially marginalized groups. Visualization and imaginary of symbolic aspects of racism has been a part of LatCrit analysis connected to political conceptions of identity linked to policy.
