Critical Race Theory & Legal Doctrine
Critical Race Theory and Legal Doctrine Critical Race Theory will be referred to CRT throughout this document. This is to reduce reading time. I think CRT was meant to evaluate laws, not to demand defunding of Law Enforcement/reoperations, and to c hange the written laws/rules. Scholars: Roy L. Brooks defines CRT in 1994 as: A collection of critical stances against the existing legal order from a race-based point of view. Richard Delgado , a co-founder of CRT, defines CRT in 2017 as: A collection of activists and scholars interested in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power. Tommy J. Curry defines CRT as: The view that the law and legal institutions are inherently racist and that race itself, instead of being biologically grounded and natural, is a socially constructed concept that is used by white people to further their economic and political interests at the expense of people of color. “ Scholars at the forefront of deve...