Race in mainland European legal analysis: Towards a European critical race theory

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Critical Race Theory (CRT), an American legal theory, has been known for bringing race into left-wing legal analysis and for introducing powerand domination-related arguments into more traditional civil rights scholarship. So far, continental European legal literature has barely heeded CRT. This article seeks to assess CRT's potential contribution in analysing the relationship between race and law in the European context which is characterized by the invisibilization of race and by the narrow legal view of what constitutes racism. The case of French Republican colour-blindness illustrates the European model's contradictions with regard to the (non-)use of race. Instead of eliminating race, a more raceconscious legal analysis, as proposed by CRT in the United States, better addresses the lived experience of racism by people of colour in Europe.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1648-1664
Number of pages17
JournalEthnic and Racial Studies
Volume34
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2011
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Colour-blindness
  • Critical Race Theory
  • Discrimination
  • France
  • Race
  • Racism

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