"critical race theory" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1995, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement, The New Press, page xi",
          "text": "In short, Critical Race Theory is an intellectual movement that is both particular to our postmodern (and conservative) times and part of a tradition of human resistance and liberation."
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          "ref": "2002, Kimberlé Crenshaw, \"The First Decade: Critical Reflections, or 'A Foot in the Closing Door'\", in: Francisco Valdes, Jerome Mccristal Culp and Angela Harris (ed.), Crossroads, Directions and A New Critical Race Theory, Temple University Press, page 19",
          "text": "We would signal the specific political and intellectual location of the project through the \"critical\", the substantive focus through \"race\", and the desire to develop a coherent account of race and law through the term \"theory\"... If we were going to give this inchoate thing a name, let it be a proper sign on the intellectual landscape: Critical Race Theory."
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          "ref": "2012, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, New York University Press, page 3",
          "text": "The Critical Race Theory (CRT) movement is a collection of activists and scholars interested in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism and power."
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          "text": "2016, Gloria Ladson-Billings, \"The Evolving Role of Critical Race Theory in Educational Scholarship\", in: Adrienne D. Dixson, Celia K. Rousseau Anderson, Jamel K. Donnor (ed.), Critical Race Theory in Education: All God's Children Got a Song, Routledge, page\nIt seems hard to believe that a decade has gone by since the term \"critical race theory\" was introduced into educational scholarship, and at the same time it is a very appropriate interval at which to take stock of where we are."
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          "ref": "2021 June 17, Moira Donegan, “What the moral panic about ‘critical race theory’ is about”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "But maybe the very obscurity of this genuine critical race theory is the point: before it became the object of the American right’s latest moral panic, few people had heard of critical race theory, and even fewer understood what it really was.",
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          "ref": "2021 July 9, Michelle Goldberg, “The Christian Right Is in Decline, and It’s Taking America With It”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "The fight over critical race theory seems, on the surface, further from theological concerns. There are, obviously, plenty of people who aren’t evangelical who are anti-C.R.T., as well as evangelicals who oppose C.R.T. bans.",
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          "ref": "2021 November 11, Jay Caspian Kang, “Can We Talk About Critical Race Theory?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "The actual critical race theory argues that racism isn’t just what happens when an individual decides to hate a group of people, but rather an ideology that has been embedded in American institutions.",
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          "word": "批判性種族理論"
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          "roman": "pīpànxìng zhǒngzú lǐlùn",
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          "word": "théorie critique de la race"
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          "word": "kritische Rassentheorie"
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          "alt": "ひはんてきじんしゅりろん",
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          "roman": "hihanteki jinshu riron",
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