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ERIC Number: EJ979526
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 23
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1946
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The Race for Class: Reflections on a Critical Raceclass Theory of Education
Leonardo, Zeus
Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, v48 n5 p427-449 2012
This article is intended to appraise the insights gained from Critical Race Theory (CRT) in Education. It is particularly interested in CRT's relationship with Marxist discourse, which falls under two questions. One, how does CRT understand Marxist concepts, such as "capital," which show up in the way CRT appropriates them? The article argues that Marxist concepts, such as "historical classes," "class-for-itself," are useful for race analysis as it sets parameters around the conceptual use of "historical races" and a "race-for-itself." Two, how does CRT understand the role of capitalism, therefore shedding light on its position regarding the class problem? It is no doubt attentive to class power, but this is not the same as performing an immanent critique of capitalism. As a result, within CRT class achieves a color whereby class becomes a variant of race, better known as "classism." Race becomes the theory with class vocabulary superimposed on it. Last, I suggest areas where CRT could combine with Marxism in order to forge a Critical Raceclass Theory of Education.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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