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Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
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Cited edition: New York: The New Press, 1995.
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- Title
- Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
- Author
- Kimberlé Crenshaw; Neil Gotanda; Gary Peller; Kendall Thomas (eds.)
- Year
- 1995
- Document type
- Book
- Source class
- 1. Primary text (the thinker’s own work)
- Standpoint
- Movement: writes from inside the tradition
- Publisher
- The New Press
- Place
- New York
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Whiteness as the embodiment of white privilege transcended mere belief or preference; it became usable property, the subject of the law’s regard and protection.
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The law constructed “whiteness” as an objective fact, although in reality it is an ideological proposition imposed through subordination. This move is the central feature of “reification”
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elevated whiteness from a passive attribute to an object of law and a resource deployable at the social, political, and institutional level to maintain control
Harris, "Whiteness as Property", p. 282, on the state elevating whiteness
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In "Whiteness as Property", reprinted in the movement's own founding anthology, Cheryl Harris defines whiteness as usable property: the embodiment of white privilege, protected by law.
Filed in: Decoder: Whiteness
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Plain English for “Whiteness”: A holding rather than a color: a bundle of advantages the law is said to protect the way i...
Filed in: Decoder: Whiteness
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Harris holds that the state elevated whiteness from a passive attribute to an object of law and a deployable resource.
Filed in: Decoder: Whiteness
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Harris grounds the whiteness-as-property argument in reification, citing Lukács, History and Class Consciousness, in her note 13.
Filed in: Decoder: Whiteness
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