http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2 ... ll%20Video CNN's ridiculous "journalism"
Why is Derrick Bell creating such a stir? Not only because he intentionally, in his own words, HID this video during the 2008 election, but also because he was the Jeremiah Wright of Academia, and he has said things like this in the past: "treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity." and "Abolishing the white race as a social category".
Critical Race Theory (CRT) is an academic discipline focused upon the intersection of race, law and power.
Although no set of canonical doctrines or methodologies defines CRT, the movement is loosely unified by two common areas of inquiry. First, CRT has analyzed the way in which racial hierarchies are reproduced over time, and in particular, the role that law plays in this process. Second, CRT work has investigated the possibility of transforming the relationship between law and racial power, and more broadly, the possibility of achieving racial emancipation and anti-subordination.
Appearing in US law schools in the mid- to late 1980s, Critical Race Theory began as a reaction to Critical Legal Studies,[2]. Scholars like Derrick Bell applauded the focus of civil rights scholarship on race, but were deeply critical of civil rights scholars' commitment to colorblindness and their focus on intentional discrimination, rather than a broader focus on the conditions of racial inequality.[3] Likewise, scholars like Patricia Williams, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw and Mari Matsuda embraced the focus on the reproduction of hierarchy in Critical Legal Studies, but criticized CLS scholars for failing to focus on racial domination and on the particular sources of racial oppression.[4]
Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic have documented the following major themes as characteristic of work in critical race theory:
* A critique of liberalism: CRT scholars favor a more aggressive approach to social transformation as opposed to liberalism's more cautious approach, favor a race conscious approach to transformation rather than liberalism's embrace of color blindness, and favor an approach that relies more on political organizing, in contrast to liberalism's reliance on rights-based remedies.
* Storytelling/counterstorytelling and "naming one's own reality"--using narrative to illuminate and explore experiences of racial oppression.
* Revisionist interpretations of American civil rights law and progress—criticizing civil rights scholarship and anti-discrimination law.
* Applying insights from social science writing on race and racism to legal problems.
* Structural determinism, or how "the structure of legal thought or culture influences its content."
* The intersections of race, sex, and class--e.g., how poor Latinas' experience of domestic violence needs distinctive remedies.
* Essentialism and anti-essentialism—reducing the experience of a category (like gender or race) to the experience of one sub-group (like white women or African-Americans).
* Cultural nationalism/separatism, Black nationalism--exploring more radical views arguing for separation and reparations as a form of foreign aid.
* Legal institutions, critical pedagogy, and minority lawyers in the bar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory
