1. Critical Race Theory…What it is Not!
Gloria Ladson-Billings
University of Wisconsin-Madison

2. A CRT in Education Timeline
Proposal Submission
AERA Annual Meeting
Ladson-Billings & Tate, Toward a critical race theory of education, Teachers College Press, 97, 47-68

3. Ladson-Billings & Tate’s Learning Curve
Crenshaw
(1988)
Bell (1989)
Williams (1991)
Delgado; Matsuda;
Harris, et al
Tate, Ladson-Billings & Grant (1993)

4. Writing Process
Draft to colleagues
Colloquium
Feedback

5. A Tale of 2 Coasts Crenshaw Bell Delgado Williams Green
Ladson-Billings & Tate
Crenshaw
Gotanda
Peller
Solarzano
Yosso

6. Lewis Terman
“High-grade or border- line deficiency…is very, very common among Spanish-Indian and Mexican families of the southwest and also among negroes. Their dullness seems to be racial….”

7. Tenets of CRT (Delgado & Stefancic, 2001)
Belief that racism is normal, not aberrant in US
Interest convergence
Race as a social construction
Intersectionality and anti-essentialism
Voice or Counter-narrative

8. Racism as “Normal” Gunnar Myrdal – Anomaly Thesis
Hochschild – Symbiosis Thesis

9. Interest Convergence
White people seek racial justice only to the extent that there is something in it for them ~ Derrick Bell

10. Race as a Social Construction
…There is a deep paradox between the scientific notion of “no- race” and “the social parameters of race by which we conduct our lives and structures our institutions.” ~ (Smedley, 1993)

11. Intersectionality and Anti-Essentialism
“The examination of race, sex, class, national origin, sexual orientation and how their combinations play out in various settings.” ~ Delgado & Stefancic (2001)

12. Is it race, class, or gender?

13. Different Responses to the OJ verdict

14. Voice or Counter-Narrative

15. Ladson-Billings & Tate (Eds.) (2006)

16. CRT is not…
“sexy”
“trendy”
“new”
Racial “navel gazing”

17. A CRT Anti-Chronicle