The study emerged way back in the 1970’s, via post Civil Rights era, which was expected to be clean of racial antagonists. (Crawford 111). This theory was commonly used during the investigation of Rodney King showing that he was in fact oppressed. The creator of the Critical Race Theory, Derrick Bell, said that “oppressors are neither neatly divorceable from one another nor amendable to strict organization” (Crawford 112). He has divided the theory into several subdivisions including a questioning of the dominant belief system/status quo; the centrality of experiential knowledge; and a multidisciplinary perspective. a commitment to social justice; the primacy of race and racism and their intersectionality with other forms of subordination. These different areas help the scholars very deeply investigate the unseen problems by a larger society that contribute to racism as a
The study emerged way back in the 1970’s, via post Civil Rights era, which was expected to be clean of racial antagonists. (Crawford 111). This theory was commonly used during the investigation of Rodney King showing that he was in fact oppressed. The creator of the Critical Race Theory, Derrick Bell, said that “oppressors are neither neatly divorceable from one another nor amendable to strict organization” (Crawford 112). He has divided the theory into several subdivisions including a questioning of the dominant belief system/status quo; the centrality of experiential knowledge; and a multidisciplinary perspective. a commitment to social justice; the primacy of race and racism and their intersectionality with other forms of subordination. These different areas help the scholars very deeply investigate the unseen problems by a larger society that contribute to racism as a