Critical Race Theory

Catalog description

Critical race theory (CRT) challenges the substance and style of conventional legal scholarship. This course introduces CRT's core principles, explores its possibilities and limitations, examines concepts of storytelling, interest convergence theory, social construction of race, black-white paradigm, myth of model minority, intersectionality, essentialism, working identity, covering, whiteness and white privilege, colorblindness, microaggressions, and implicit bias. Students will apply these theories and frameworks to cases and topics dealing with first amendment freedoms, affirmative action, employment discrimination, criminal disparities and inequities, and more.