These passages from Frazier and Cone haunt me.

“Racism has been devastating to blacks, but it has also done serious harm to a great many whites.”—Derrick Bell

“Auschwitz ovens/burn bright/in America.” —Pam Colorado

“The term evangélico has had multiple meanings in Spanish.” —Juan F. Martínez

As the semester ends, I’m eager to blog again. It’s been too long.

Because this text is the first book-length collaboration by CRT scholars (written by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Richard Delgado, Charles Lawrence III, and Mari Matsuda), we do well to consider how it describes CRT.

Bell spends the bulk of his essay showing, naming, and defending CRT.

I have discussed how I approach CRT texts and treated the first published list of CRT’s common themes.

Lately, many people are asking me the same question: “What are the main tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT)?”

“The question of labor is one which commends itself to the attention of the capitalist.”-Sylvester Mowry

“Surely I’ve misread something,” I thought.

If it’s not a single theory, why is it called ‘Critical Race Theory?

“I have been disappointed with the white church and its leadership.”-Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Queen Elizabeth I wanted colonies in the Americas.

“There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. “-Walter Benjamin

We find the U.S. presented as a benevolent White empire, liberally granting those it conquered and placed under the White Man’s burden “most of the American constitutional guaranties.”

“In adopting the term ‘citizens’ we did not understand, however, that we were giving to those people any rights that the American people do not want them to have.”-Senator Joseph B. Foraker

Puerto Ricans are taxed without representation; foreign, but in a domestic sense; the spoils of racial conquest which are too racially different to be welcomed into the U.S.’s majority White family.

“The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.” -W. E. B. Du Bois

This Treaty is part of a nineteenth-century barbarous textual tradition that championed and perpetuated the establishment of White, Anglo-Saxon supremacy across much of the globe.