Table of Contents
1
Cover
4
Preface
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Introduction: Critical Race Theory as Social Theory
The roots and routes of critical race theory
A ‘legal’ definition of CRT?
From a movement to a theory?
What is theoretical about critical race theory?
The racialized social system and practical social theory
Why does theory matter?
Towards the racialized social system approach
Internationalizing CRT: looking for the racialized social system approach
Chapter overviews
Notes
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1 The Racialized Social System and Social Space: Racial Interests and Contestation
Defining the racialized social system: from ‘the state’ to ‘the structure’
Reflections on social space
The racial and the relational
The race for meaning
Relating ‘race’ to place
Contesting ‘race’ in social space
The trap of ‘racial conflict’ in the race relations model
Racial contestation beyond ‘race relations’
From racial contestation to racial interests: racial realism and the wages of whiteness
Racial realism or racial progress?
Maintaining an interest in whiteness
From racial interests back to racism
Notes
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2 Racial Ideologies and Racialized Emotions: Seeing, Thinking and Feeling Race
Racial ideologies: from deception to perception
Colour-blind ideology in practice
Activating ideologies through emotional constellations
Emotions, ideologies and political conjunctures
Structures and individuals in racialized social systems
Notes
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3 Theorizing the Racialized Interaction Order
The interaction order: from Goffman to the Black sociological tradition
The racialized interaction order
Interaction orders of non-interaction
The interactive making of race: micro aggressions, everyday racism, and racial action
Activating controlling images in the racialized interaction order
From controlling images to white habitus
Interactional cogs and the racial structure
Notes
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4 Meso Racial Structures and Racialized Organizations
The vague promise(s) of analytical sociology
What are racialized organizations and what do they do?
From North American healthcare to Brazilian sugar mills
Racialized organizations and agency
Sport, racialization and agency
Workplaces as racialized organizations
Racialized organizations and the unequal distribution of resources
Moving to the top?
Cultural industries, racial grammars and racialized imagery
Notes
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Conclusion: What is Critical about Critical Race Theory?
What about … ?
A global racialized social system?
The flexibility of the racialized social system approach: from DesiCrit to TribalCrit and BritCrit
Why CRT and not RT?
Why do we need CRT now?
CRT and the environment