In this second part of a two-part series on Critical Race Theory, Crawdads & Taters review the way CRT, like many once-radical US social movements, has been largely captured by neoliberalism and its funding institutions, stripping it of its original class politics and its revolutionary potential for broad-based political transformation. We also review popular anti-racist literature like Ibram X. Kendi's "How to be an Anti-Racist" and imagine what Critical Race Theory might have looked like today had it maintained a solid anti-capitalist analysis over the last several decades. Finally, we offer up the work of a few key movement leaders, as a way to uplift today's revolutionary voices in the anti-capitalist, anti-racist and abolitionist left.
Related links:
Marxism Is Way Better Than Critical Race Theory with Vivek Chibber
Critical Race Theory: An Introduction by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
Fred Hampton on Revolution and Racism
Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti
William I. Robinson, "The Global Police State"
Angela Davis: ‘We knew the role of the police was to protect white supremacy’
Episode 41: Racism and Capitalism in Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's Race For Profit
Ibram Kendi on the critical race theory culture war.
Trump Says Go Back, We Say Fight Back by Robin DG Kelley
Martin Luther King - The Three Evils of Society
Ruth Wilson Gilmore - famous abolitionist
Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor - journalist, professor, author
Marc Lamont Hill - journalist, professor, activist, abolitionist
Robin DG Kelley - professor, author, activist
Derecka Purnell - legal scholar, activist, abolitionist
Nick Estes - professor, revolutionary Lakota leader
Cedric Robinson - activist, author of Black Marxism
Assata Shakur - revolutionary, BPP member
WEB DuBois - sociologist, scholar