ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines a theory of racial matters, systemic racism theory, builds substantially on social knowledge about racial issues generated by critical black thinkers. Systemic racism theory is committed to this intersectionalist analysis, but with a central focus on systemic racial oppression. Systemic racism theory has regularly examined the interrelationship of racial, gender/sexuality and class oppression and, additionally, revealed how racial oppression intersects with yet other large-scale forms of social structural oppression such as religious and ethnic oppression. Systemic racism theory is also deeply rooted in liberation social science and critical public sociology and similar social science, which focus on developing knowledge and social practices promoting social justice, human rights and more egalitarian human relations. Systemic racism research is also often multi-methodological, combining some of these qualitative research approaches with survey techniques and statistical analyses.
