Is it Always about Race? Critical Race Theory’s Failure to Analyze Dominance, Power, and Control

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Abstract

Using Power as a mechanism to critique institutional practices, this article analyzed Critical Race Theory [CRT]. CRT has positive implications for racial relations but remains stuck in a naive belief of the emancipatory potential of law. CRT has not adequately adjudicated the complexity between domination and submission or the power dynamics in the paradigm of freedom, resistance, and control. Nor has CRT sufficiently challenged the Dominant Group’s normalization of power and identity formation. Notwithstanding, CRT remains relevant and needed.

Author

• Otis Grant, Center for Law, Behavior and Society