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Critical Race Theory: A Primer 2nd Edition Khiara M. Bridges ISBN 9798317700713

This highly readable primer on Critical Race Theory (CRT) explores the theory’s core commitments, key insights, and principal critiques. The second edition is updated to address significant recent developments, including the Republican Party’s cooptation of the term “Critical Race Theory” beginning in 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States’s 2023 decision limiting race-conscious affirmative action, and the ways race has been deployed during the Trump Administration. In addition to serving as a primary text for undergraduate and graduate courses or seminars on Critical Race Theory and Race and the Law, the book is well suited for courses in Antidiscrimination Law, Civil Rights, and Law and Society. It is also accessible to any reader seeking a clearer understanding of how race is constructed and contested within legal systems.

The book is organized into four parts. Part I traces the historical development of CRT. Part II introduces and examines foundational concepts, including institutional and structural racism, implicit bias, microaggressions, racial privilege, the relationship between race and class, and intersectionality. Part III expands on intersectionality by analyzing how race intersects with other characteristics such as sexuality and gender identity, religion, and ability. Part IV applies CRT to pressing contemporary issues, including racial disparities in health, affirmative action, the criminal legal system, the welfare state, and education.

Critical Race Theory: A Primer 2nd Edition Khiara M. Bridges ISBN 9798317700713, 979-8317700713 & 979-83177-00713

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Khiara M. Bridges