1. African and Caribbean Histories: Coventry Perspectives

2. Critical Race Theory political and intellectual movement seeks to theorize and challenge racism and structural inequality originally developed in the 1970s to examine how racial inequalities were perpetuated and maintained in American legal system, now applied more broadly based on the understanding that race and racism are the product of social thought and power relations

3. 1.Normalcy of Racism racism engrained in the very structure and social fabric of Western 2. White Supremacy political, economic, and cultural system in which whites overwhelmingly control power and material resources Main Principles of Critical Race Theory

4. 3. Voices of People of Color insight into racism comes from those who experience it ‘speaking back’ about racism is also a potential form of empowerment for people of colour Main Principles of Critical Race Theory

5. 4. Interest Convergence ‘the interest of blacks in achieving racial equality will be accommodated only when it converges with the interests of whites’ (Derrick Bell, 1980) 5. Intersectionality understanding of the complex and multiple ways in which various systems of subordination can come together at the same time