ABSTRACT
This chapter defines critical race methodology as a theoretically grounded approach to research that foregrounds race and racism in all aspects of the research process. According to James Banks, Eurocentric versions of US history reveal race to be a socially constructed category, created to differentiate racial groups and to show the superiority or dominance of one race over another. Mari Matsuda views critical race theory as the work of progressive legal scholars of color who are attempting to develop a jurisprudence that accounts for the role of racism in American law and that work toward the elimination of racism as part of a larger goal of eliminating all forms of subordination. Critical race theory and methodology in education have at least the following five elements that form their basic insights, perspectives, methodology, and pedagogy. Whether explicitly or implicitly, social science theoretical models explaining educational inequality support majoritarian stories.
