Racialized Social System: Critical Race Theory as Social Theory Meghji A
Racialized Social System: Critical Race Theory as Social Theory Meghji A Far from its origins in US legal studies in the 1980s, critical race theory has grown to become a leading approach to the…
Specifikacia Racialized Social System: Critical Race Theory as Social Theory Meghji A
Racialized Social System: Critical Race Theory as Social Theory Meghji A
Far from its origins in US legal studies in the 1980s, critical race theory has grown to become a leading approach to the analysis of racial inequality around the world. So what precisely is critical race theory and what makes it different from other theories of race, racialization and racism?In this incisive book, Ali Meghji defines the contours of critical race theory through the notion of the 'racialized social system'. It has courted much controversy along the way, often misunderstood and poorly defined.
In making his case, Meghji pays attention to the macro, meso and micro dimensions of the racialized social system, focusing on core phenomena such as He thereby excavates a solid social theory that clears up many empirical and conceptual questions that continue to surround critical race theory, offering a flexible, practical model for studying structural racism.