CRT: Racism And Oppression

CRT has evolved as a means to examine how people of color contend with continued racism and oppression (Delgado & Stefancic, 2001). CRT is comprised of five main tenets. First, CRT maintains the centrality of race and racism. Thus, CRT argues that racism is an ordinary and normative, everyday experience for people of color. Second, CRT argues that racism advances the causes of the white elite and there is little incentive to eradicate racism. The third tenet of CRT maintains that race and races are products of social thought or “social construction,” and they are not a genetic or biological reality. Thus, races are essentially categories that society invents, manipulates or retires. The fourth tenet is differential racialization, the idea that