Roundtable: What CRT Taught Me: Research Edition

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract/Description

Critical Race Theory is a scholarly tradition, intellectual movement, and set of analytic and practical tools for examining and addressing race and racism. Despite its emergence in legal scholarship, ideas integral to CRT have been largely absent from the fields of criminology and criminal justice. In this roundtable, we examine this absence, while also exploring how our personal and collective engagements with CRT scholarship are shaping the ways we think about and conduct research. Of note, we will explore topics such as: the gap between CRT and status-quo, liberal anti-discrimination rhetoric; integrating how CRT defines and uses intersectionality within social science research; an examination of how CRT was intended to be used, and an examination of how CRT is used in current social science research; how eCrit can be a usefulguide for integrating CRT concepts with traditional social science research methods; and how CRT calls us to rigorously conceptualize terms such as race, racism, and anti-Blackness. After briefly sharing our own reflections, we invite participants to join us in discussing their own engagement with CRT scholarship, concerns about integrating CRT concepts and theories into their own work, and how CRT adds to (or perhaps undermines) the criminological project.

Sub Unit

• Area XIV. Roundtables

Chair

• Amanda Petersen, Old Dominion University

Discussants

• Sarah Gatton, Old Dominion University

• Hayley Jackey, Old Dominion University

• Mac Kibler, Old Dominion University

• Brianna Michele Ovalle, Old Dominion University