POLS 3561 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Critical Race Theory, Critical Legal Studies, Frankfurt School
18 Apr 2014
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Critical theories of race and racism: critical theories are better tools/ instruments to use when analyzing the issues of race and racism in. Critical social science: critiques basic social structure. You may try to find the nature, foundation, and environments in these basic social structures. You are getting into the roots of how the structure works, who benefits from these structures, and who is at loss. Interpretive scholarship: the main cause of oppression. Criticism: bring about positive change by applying principals and values. When you look at things politically it means that you are looking at things relationally. It is about studying (interpreting) and transforming (change) the relationship among race, racism, and power. In doing so, it shares many issues that with the civil rights and ethnic rights. Critical race theory tries to put the different approaches in a broader context and looking into these issues closely. Unlike traditional civil rights, they focus on perpetual progress.
