Critical race theory
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Critical Race Theory (CRT) emphasizes the socially constructed nature of race, considers judicial conclusions to be the result of the workings of power, and opposes the continuation of all forms of subordination. This line of inquiry is the branch of critical legal studies concerned with issues of racism and racial subordination and discrimination. The notions of the social construction of race and discrimination are present in the writings of such established critical race theorists as Derrick Bell, Mari Matsuda, Richard Delgado, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Neil Gotanda, and William Tate; newly emerging CRT scholars Adrienne Dixson, Celia Rousseau, and Thandeka Chapman; and some pioneers in sociology, including W.E.B. DuBois and Max Weber.
