Critical Race Theory

Critical race theory (CRT)^[1] is a theoretical framework in the social sciences that uses critical theory to examine society and culture as they relate to categorizations of race, law, and power. (from Wikipedia)

CRT recognizes that racism is engrained in the fabric and system of the American society. The individual racist need not exist to note that institutional racism is pervasive in the dominant culture. This is the analytical lens that CRT uses in examining existing power structures. CRT identifies that these power structures are based on white privilege and white supremacy, which perpetuates the marginalization of people of color. (UCLA School of Public Affairs)

Yosso: Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth

Hiraldo: The role of critical race theory in higher education

Intersectionality 101

A fun, illustrated guide to intersectionality: https://miriamdobson.com/2013/07/12/intersectionality-a-fun-guide-now-in-powerpoint-presentation-formation/

 

Kimberle Crenshaw

• Coined the term in this paper: Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics 

• Podcast: Intersectionality Matters!
• LSE talk (with closed captions) / podcast

Applications

• Intersectionality to marketing

“Most students like me enter higher education through its windows, only to find that all around us are walls that keep us secluded and marginalized.” (Rendon, 1992, p. 55)

Women of Color Faculty in Academia

I am located in the margin. I make a definite distinction between that marginality which is imposed by oppressive structures and that marginality one chooses as site of resistance-as location of radical openness and possibility. (hooks, 1990, p. 153)

• Laboring Positions: Black Women, Mothering, and the Academy (edited by Elektra Gilchrist — book chapter on Black women and motherhood on the tenure track co-authored by Tindall)
• The Plight of the Black Academic (from the Atlantic)
• The Black Academic’s Guide to Winning Tenure–Without Losing Your Soul (Kerry Ann Roquemore)
• Women of Color in the Academy Project (University of Michigan)
• Women of Color Faculty in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM): Experiences in Academia
• Women of color faculty and the “burden” of diversity  (DOI: 10.1080/14616742.2014.929357)
• Resisting from the margins: The coping strategies of Black women and other women of color faculty members at a research university
• Race and gender oppression in the classroom: The experiences of women faculty of color with white male students
• From the barrio to the academy: Revelations of a Mexican American “scholarship girl”
• Hot commodities, cheap labor: Women of color in the academy
  • Patti Duncan describes how women of color are often relegated as the “fixers” of diversity issues and as “hot commodities” in an academic marketplace, while at the same time experiencing “epistemological violence,” or the dismissal of their pedagogical instruction, research practices, and scholarly production.
• 2017 stats from Catalyst

I teach as if I have nothing to lose, which helps me tell my students the truth—about why the faces in the room are mostly a certain color, or about how we are all part of an oppressive structure perpetuating all sorts of bigotry just by sitting in that room. I don’t believe these institutions will figure out a way to solve their own problems. They were designed to do the opposite. When I speak at other predominantly white campuses, I remind the students of color and the women about this fact: This place never imagined you here, and your exclusion was a fundamental premise in its initial design. I push students to make themselves heard, to voice their understandable and justified rage. Then I go back to my own campus and sit in my office and listen to the lights buzz overheard while thanking the universe that, for now, I have health insurance. That contradiction makes me sick. And the only thing that eases the nausea is the writing. The writing asks you to question the job. The job lets me afford the writing. The job is why you’re reading this. (Capo Crucet, 2019)

LGBTQ Faculty in Academia

• Academe’s gay tax
• Factors impacting the academic climate for LGBQ STEM faculty 
• The influence of campus climate and urbanization on queer-spectrum and trans-spectrum faculty intent to leave.

Inclusive Workplaces

• 6 steps for building an inclusive workplace (from the Society for Human Resource Management)
• What is faculty diversity worth to a university? (The Atlantic)
• Increasing diversity in faculty hiring (Inside Higher Education)
• Fixing hiring practices to increase faculty diversity (Hechinger Report)

Serving Diverse Communities

• The National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care provides a framework for organizations to serve diverse communities. (Found via the LA RED TIG Week Blog) 
• LA RED TIG Week: How you see Latina/o/x communities. Do you see Latina/o/x communities? (from the American Evaluation Association)
• How to authentically connect with the Latinx audience without Hispandering (Spin Sucks)