CRT Concepts
A theoretical tool first developed by critical legal scholars to recognize the marginalized experiences of People of Color in the law
What is critical race theory (CRT)?
This term refers to the sociocultural resources that communities of color possess and utilize to resist oppression and promote empowerment, according to T. J. Yosso's work on critical race theory.
What is Community Cultural Wealth?
What is the term used to describe the practice of using race-neutral policies that disproportionately negatively impact minority groups?
What is colorblind racism?
What theory has often been called upon to explain why Students of Color come to the classroom with cultural deficiencies?
What is Bourdieu's cultural capital theory?
A branch of CRT that focuses on issues of immigration status, language, ethnicity, and culture that may be overlooked by the Black-white paradigm that often becomes the focus of race discourse
What is LatCrit?
A type of capital proposed by Lindsay Perez Huber that can be understood as a set of resources and skills rooted in a spiritual connection to a reality greater than oneself.
What is spiritual capital?
What is the term used to describe the prevalent form of contemporary racism in US schools that assumes minority students and families are at fault for poor academic performance?
What is deficit thinking?
Storytelling skills fall under what capital?
What is linguistic capital?
The forms of knowledge “nurtured among familia (kin) that carry a sense of community history, memory and cultural intuition (type of capital)
What is familial capital?
The peer and various social networks developed to assist in the movement through social institutions such as schools (type of capital)
What is social capital?
What is the term used to describe the process by which minority students are disproportionately placed in special education programs, often due to biased assessments and teacher referrals?
What is Disproportionate representation?
Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic define this mindset as “the bundle of presuppositions, perceived wisdom, and shared cultural understanding persons in the dominant race bring to the discussion of race”
What is the majoritarian mindset
A conceptual tool that helps researchers understand how the historical racialization of Immigrants of Color shapes the contemporary experiences of Latina/o undocumented immigrants
What is LatCrit racist nativism framework?
What are some examples of cultural wealth that communities of color possess, according to T. J. Yosso's work on critical race theory?
What is aspirational, navigational, social, linguistic, familial, and resistant capital
What is the term used to describe the practice of using standardized test scores to make high-stakes decisions about students, teachers, and schools?
What is Test-Based Accountability?
What is the term used to describe the process by which minority students are disproportionately placed in special education programs, often due to biased assessments and teacher referrals?
What is self determination theory?
This concept has been reorganized as “a set of inner resources, social competencies, and cultural strategies that permit individuals to not only survive, recover, or even thrive after stressful events, and conditions that palace them at risk of doing poorly as school, and ultimately, dropping out of school”
What is resilience?
Those knowledge and skills are fostered through oppositional behavior that challenges inequality, grounded in a history of resistance to subordination by Communities of Color, guided by a motivation to transform oppressive institutions and structures (type of capital)
What is resistant capital?
This scholar called on People of Color to transform the process of theorizing, emphasizing the study of sources of knowledge.
Who is Gloria Anzaldúa?
the ways in which parents of color are often expected to perform their involvement in education in ways that conform to white, middle-class norms, and how this can perpetuate racial inequality in education.
What is racialized performance?