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CRITICAL RACE THEORY & INTERSECTIONALITY - Coggle Diagram
CRITICAL RACE THEORY & INTERSECTIONALITY
Background (UK)
Race Relations Act (1976) - introduced Commission for Racial Inequality to monitor treatment, promote equality and get rid of racial discrimination
Amended in 2000 t require police and other public bodies to promote racial inequality
Equality Act (2010) - identified 9 protected characteristics to prevent discrimination
Derrick Bell
Law professor
Wrote 'Yale Law Journal' (1976)
Argued changes to law are largely ineffective if those enforcing them do so with racial prejudice
CRT as a Social Movement
Derrick Bell, Richard Delgado & Kimberle Crenshaw seen as founders of the CRT movement
Alan Freeman founded critical legal studies
If you add Bell's analysis of racism in US law onto critical legal studies, you have CRT
Sees the law as the same for everyone, but the outcomes are largely dependent on the person (e.g. age, gender, race)
Intersectionality
Kimberle Crenshaw
Idea of power and inequality colliding based on multiple features
Everyone has their own individual experiences of inequality and privilege
Example - race + gender = black feminism
Summary
There are many links between CRT and intersectionality
Intersectionality covers a wide range of areas (e.g. gender, sexuality, disability) - shows complexity of discrimination
Both show continued inequality against a backdrop of legislation