Critical Race Theory

Let me try to tackle Critical Race Theory (CRT) in a paragraph, which I'm sure will leave many with some or a lot of questions. CRT looks at the world through a race conscious lens. This means that when it comes to identifying and analyzing oppressive structures, whether deliberate or incidental, race is at the forefront of this process. It breaks from traditional Critical Theory and argues that CT has a history of ignoring the importance of race. Pay attention to the word "importance", Why? Because CRT does not reject the theoretical claims of CT, rather, it takes from these and changes the dynamic of Capitalism/Racism and, perhaps, frames it as Racims/Capitalism. What I mean here is that CT looks at oppressive structures as the result of a capitalist ideology. CRT argues that while the capitalist ideology is core, race, historically, has served as a buffer and the strongest reinforcer of capitalist structures. In addition, capitalism has thrived because of racist ideological forces taht dehumanize beyond what traditional ogliarchic (is that a word?) ideology ever has. A personal note, I am not using CRT "instead of" anything else, rather, I use CRT because it centralizes the theme(s) that I am interested in exploring through my dissertation process. From CRT, like other traditions (latina/o critical theory, critical asian studies, critical race feminism, queer theory, etc.), branch off that focus on a particular form of oppression: