10 Facts About Critical Race Theory

Critical Race Theory was responding to the Supreme Court's decisions that had resulted in the re-segregation of schools.

Critical Race Theory described how prominent figures such as neoconservative scholars Thomas Sowell and William Bradford Reynolds, who served as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division from 1981 to 1988, called for "strictly color-blind policies".

Critical Race Theory questioned how the top articles in most well-established journals were all written by white men.

Critical Race Theory listed and described how Supreme Court cases had gutted civil rights legislation, which had resulted in African-American students continuing to attend all-black schools that lacked adequate funding and resources.

Critical Race Theory compiled his own course materials which were published in 1970 under the title Race, Racism, and American Law.

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Critical Race Theory became Harvard Law School's first Black tenured professor in 1971.

Critical Race Theory criticized the narrow interpretation of the law which denied relief for victims of racial discrimination.

Critical Race Theory developed the concept of racial realism in a 1992 series of essays and book, Faces at the bottom of the well: the permanence of racism.

Critical Race Theory said that Black people needed to accept that the civil rights era legislation would not on its own bring about progress in race relations; anti-Black racism in the US was a "permanent fixture" of American society; and equality was "impossible and illusory" in the US.

Critical Race Theory cites the social construction of race as an example, asking how race could be "constructed" better.