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Introduction
What is it? The CRT movement is interested in studying the relationship among race, racism,
and power. Unlike the/a traditional Civil Rights movement(s), which embraces incrementalism
and step-by-step progress, critical race theory questions the very foundations of the liberal order,
including equality theory, legal reasoning, rationalism and
constitutional law.
It started as a movement in the law in the mid1970s, but has spread beyond that discipline to
other academic and sociological disciplines.
Derrick Bell, Professor of Law at NYU is the
movements intellectual father figure. Alan Freeman
who taught law at SUNY Buffalo also wrote some
foundational documents, including one on the US
Supreme Courts race
jurisprudence (the process of law, the concept and principles behind the law that make up the
law).