Critical Race Theory, Fourth Edition Quotes

“many scholars in the field of education consider themselves critical race theorists who use CRT’s ideas to understand issues of school discipline and hierarchy, tracking, affirmative action, high-stakes testing, controversies over curriculum and history, bilingual and multicultural education, and alternative and charter schools.”
― Richard Delgado, Critical Race Theory, Fourth Edition: An Introduction

“critical race theory builds on the insights of two previous movements, critical legal studies and radical feminism,”
― Richard Delgado, Critical Race Theory, Fourth Edition: An Introduction

“Critical race theory sprang up in the 1970s, as a number of lawyers, activists, and legal scholars across the country realized, more or less simultaneously, that the heady advances of the civil rights era of the 1960s had stalled and, in many respects, were being rolled back.”
― Richard Delgado, Critical Race Theory, Fourth Edition: An Introduction

“The critical race theory (CRT) movement is a collection of activists and scholars engaged in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power.”
― Richard Delgado, Critical Race Theory, Fourth Edition: An Introduction

“microaggression,” by which they mean one of those many sudden, stunning, or dispiriting transactions that mar the days of women and folks of color.”
― Richard Delgado, Critical Race Theory, Fourth Edition: An Introduction