Critical Race Theory

Question 1

What does CRT aim to do?

Answer 1

Relies heavily on lived exerperineces of non- white people
Listening to voices of those marginalised, provided alternative from “normative white ethnocentric view”

Question 2

What does Hall et al say which applies CRT to crime and deviance?

Answer 2

Media created false ideology “black mugger” black men typecasted criminals
Created moral panic- police targeted black men in order to reassert authority

Question 3

What does Gilroy say which applies CRT to crime and deviance?

Answer 3

“Black criminality”- myth
Police act on racist stereotypes and this is why they are over represented in crime statistics

Question 4

What does Waddington say, that applies CRT to crime and deviance?

Answer 4

“Police canteen subculture”
Police share and create racist ideologies

Question 5

what does Wright say that applies CRT to education?

Answer 5

many Asian pupils are victims of labelling due to teachers “ethnocentric” views

Question 6

what do Bourne and Foster say that applies CRT to education?

Answer 6

black boys often seen as a “threat” and are labelled as such leading to more exclusion.
lower sets and streams.

Question 7

what is a positive of CRT regarding ignored experiences?

Answer 7

It provides deeper, more personal analysis of experiences that have historically been ignored.

Question 8

what is a negative point of CRT?

Answer 8

narratives can fall into traps of essentialism. Not all white people have the same experience.

Question 9

what is a positive of CRT regarding political movements?

Answer 9

movements adopting CRT have been politically significant, BLM
created social change.