Abstract (may include machine translation)
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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1648-1664 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
Volume | 34 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 2011 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Colour-blindness
- Critical Race Theory
- Discrimination
- France
- Race
- Racism