Student walk out in Boston, March 2016

How is Critical Race Theory a useful frame for understanding the field of education and the existing racial disparities in education? Does CRT force us to question some of our biggest civil rights “wins” in education? How have scholars used CRT as a theoretical frame for educational research that challenges the centrality of whiteness and deficit frames in research?

Week 9 (11/1): CRT in Education

• Ladson-Billings, G. (1998). Just what is critical race theory and what’s it doing in a ‘nice’ field like education? International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 11(1), 7-24. Just_What_is_Critical_Race_Theory_and_Whats_It_Do
• Ladson-Billings, G., & Tate, W. F. (1995). Toward a critical race theory of education. Teachers college record, 97(1), 47. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/William_Tate/publication/279676094_Toward_a_Critical_Race_Theory_of_Education/links/569803e908aea2d74375dba0.pdf
• Dixson, Adrienne D., and Celia K. Rousseau. “And we are still not saved: Critical race theory in education ten years later.” Race ethnicity and education 8, no. 1 (2005): 7-27. And we are still not saved critical race theory in education ten years later
• Yosso, T. J. (2005). Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth. Race ethnicity and education, 8(1), 69-91. http://www.artslb.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Whose-culture-has-capital-A-critical-race-theory-discussion-of-community-cultural-wealth-Tara-Yosso.pdf
• Solorzano, D., Ceja, M., & Yosso, T. (2000). Critical race theory, racial microaggressions, and campus racial climate: The experiences of African American college students. Journal of Negro Education, 60-73. https://www.middlesex.mass.edu/RLOs/748/Critical-Race-Theory.pdf

Optional/Additional:

• Harper, S. R. & Hurtado, S. (2007). Nine themes in campus racial climates and implications for institutional transformation. In S. R. Harper and L. Patton (Eds.), Responding to the Realities of Race on College Campuses, San Francisco, CA: Jossey- Bass. (New Directions in Student Services, Winter 2007, No. 120, pp. 7-24). https://www.gvsu.edu/cms4/asset/5D80BD51-996D-6AE0-B9D7668ADFEA7A31/nine_themes_in_campus_racial_climates_and_implications_for_institutional_transformation.pdf
• Solórzano, D. G. (1998) Critical race theory, race and gender microaggressions, and the experience of Chicana and Chicano scholars. Qualitative Studies in Education, 11(1),121-136. http://medschool.ucla.edu/Workfiles/Site-Counting/CRTMicroaggressChicanoScholars.pdf
• Truong, K. A., & Museus, S. D. (2012). Responding to racism and racial trauma in doctoral study: An inventory for coping and mediating relationships. Harvard Educational Review, 82(2), 226-254. https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/truong/files/Truong%20%26%20Museus%20%282012%29%20Responding%20to%20racism%20and%20racial%20trauma.pdf