Critical Race Theory in Education

Laurence Parker is Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy, and Associate Dean of the Honors College, University of Utah, USA.David Gillborn is Professor of Critical Race Studies and Director of the Centre for Research in Race & Education (CRRE), University of Birmingham, UK.

• 0. Introduction 1. Just What is Critical Race Theory and What's It Doing in a Nice Field Like Education? 2. 'Race is Race Ain't': An exploration of the Utility of Critical Race Theory in Qualitative Research in Education 3. Forging Community in Race and Class: Critical Race Theory and the Quest for Social Justice in Education 4. Towards an Interest‐Convergence in the Education of African‐American Football Student Athletes in Major College Sports 5. Interest-Divergence and the Colour of Cutbacks: Race, Recession and the Undeclared War on Black Children 6. “I don't think I'm a racist”: Critical Race Theory, Teacher Attitudes, and Structural Racism 7. Whose Culture has Capital? A Critical Race Theory Discussion of Community Cultural Wealth 8. Racial Microaggressions as a Tool for Critical Race Research 9. Against the Politics of Desperation: Educational Justice, Critical Race Theory, and Chicago School Reform 10. You Can't Erase Race! Using CRT to Explain the presence of Race and Racism in Majority White Suburban Schools 11. Pedagogy of Fear: Toward a Fanonian Theory of ‘Safety’ in Race Dialogue