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2 An Overview of Six Themes of Critical Race Theory This chapter explores the primary themes that define Critical Race Theory (CRT). CRT emerged from a mixture of race-conscious legal theories focused on how racism operates within governments' and private actors' laws and policy decisions. It is based on challenges to assimilationist liberal theory's failure to understand or pay proper attention to minority perspectives due to its myopic emphasis on individualism at the expense of social relations (Delgado & Stefancic, 2017). The six key themes that serve as hallmarks for CRT are counter-storytelling, white privilege, intersectionality, interest convergence; perpetuation of structural inequality, including microaggressions and color blindness; and racial realism – which entails recognizing historic discrimination while understanding our present situation through an analysis grounded in real-world experience rather than abstract scholarly contemplation. Counter-storytelling involves challenging dominant narratives by providing alternate versions of events based on stories from people who experienced them firsthand, particularly those told by members with diverse backgrounds relating their own lived experiences involving race or racism. White privilege is "the institutionalized ownership/control over certain cultural identities granted solely because someone is born white"—which affects access and power dynamics among racial groups . Intersectionality denotes the idea that individuals occupy multiple racial, gender, and other social positions that interact to affect a person's life experiences (Delgado & Stefancic, 2017). Interest convergence is the idea that changes in policy responding to racial issues will only occur when it serves some broader interest groups. Structural inequality perpetuation includes microaggressions, everyday verbal forms of prejudice discrimination consisting of expressions that marginalize specific identities, and color blindness –the perspective excluding race from discussion such that any difference between races is assumed to disappear when considered on an individual basis

3 rather than collectively . Finally, racial realism recognizes discrimination continues today regardless of whether it exists unconsciously.

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4 Reference Delgado, R., & Stefancic, J. (2017). Chapter II. Hallmark critical race theory themes. In Critical Race Theory (Third Edition) (pp. 19-43). New York University Press. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.18574/nyu/9781479851393.003.0007/ht ml

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