Do shared central claims exist in CRT? Lets compare theme lists and such things.

Five tenets of CRT in Higher Ed: (Hiraldo 2010)

1. Counter-storytelling: ?
2. Permanence of racism: inherent in institutions (systematic)
3. Whiteness as property: ?
4. Interest convergence: Failures of civil rights movement.
5. The critique of liberalism: Against ideas of neutrality, equal opportunity, etc.

CRT Annotated Bibliography (Delgado, Stefancic 1993):

1. Critique of liberalism
2. Storytelling/counter-storytelling: Use counterstory to oppose majoritarian mindsets
3. Revisionist interpretation of American civil rights law and progress: Explain failure of antidiscrimination law
4. A greater understanding of the underpinnings of race and racism: Social science applied of race and racism applied to legal issues
5. Structural determinism: Effect of 'form' on 'content' in law, esp. as means of maintaining status quo
6. Race, sex, class and their intersections: Race-class relations. Intersectionality
7. Essentialism and anti-essentialism: Unit of analysis questions. Blackness as one? As many? Blackness across class unified? Not?
8. Cultural nationalism/separatism: Black nationalism, power, insurrection
9. Legal institutions, critical pedagogy, and minorities in the bar
10. Criticism and self-criticism; responses: wrt CRT

• Quoted exactly by " Critical Race Theory as Praxis: A View from outside the Outside " (1994)

Delgado, Stefancic Intro to CRT (2017, "Hallmark CRT Themes"):

1. Interest convergence, material determinism, + Racial realism:
2. Revisionist history:
3. Critique of liberalism:
4. Structural determinism:

Enumeration of forms: black-white binary, tools of thought+dilemma of law reform, empathetic fallacy, serving two masters, race remedies as homeostatic device

Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement (1996, Crenshaw, Gotanda, Peller, Thomas):

"No canonical set of doctrines or methodologies...nevertheless unified by 2 common interests..."

1. Understand the regime of white supremacy and subordination of people of common, esp. how white supremacy is related to the "rule of law" and "equal protection". (systematic)
2. Not just understand law, but change it.

• "This ethical aspiration finds its most concrete expression in the pursuit of engaged, even adversarial scholarship. (counternarrative)
• "...believe scholarship cannot be written from a neutral perch..." (critique of liberalism)

Nice definition of Interest Convergence: [1]

Critical Race Theory, Asian Americans, and Higher Education: A Review of Research:

1. racism is commonplace rather than out of the ordinary
2. the dominant ideology promotes the interest convergence or material determinism of Whites over people of color
3. race is socially constructed
4. minorities are differentially racialized as a matter of convenience
5. understanding the intersectionality and anti-essentialism of identity
6. recognizing voices-of-color

• Cites Delgado&Stefancic 2001 introduction

Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth (Yosso 2005, Routledge) (CRT in education):

1. Centrality and connection of race to other forms of subordination
2. Challenge to dominant ideology. (anti-objectivity, anti-liberalism, anti-colorblindless, etc.)
3. Commitment to social justice. Liberatory/transformative bent
4. Centrality of experiential knowledge (counternarrative?) Storytelling, biography, narrative, etc
5. Transdisciplinary perspective