SOSC 2350 Lecture Notes - Critical Race Theory, Critical Legal Studies, Color Blindness
6 Feb 2013
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Critical race theory: identity, racial classifications and law. Forged in oppositional reaction to visions of race, racism, and law dominated in a post-civil rights period (originally an american movement: it"s an intellectually-politically committed movement, note cls is a movement, not a theory. It"s an american movement because its origins are in american law schools. Evolved from and in critical response to the cls movement: feelings of alienation, marginalization and inattention by critical race. Cls is now a part of ethnic studies, social science, and expanded into a range of scholarly movements. There is no specific methodology that defines critical race theory: instead, it is unified by two common areas of inquiry that provides the framework for understanding cls. Second: it has investigated certain possibilities of transforming the relationship between law and social power. The broader agenda is finding the possibility of achieve social emancipation: freeing us from dualisms, and loosening hegemonic structures.
