The story of schooling: critical race theory and the educational racial contract

2013/08/08 by Zeus Leonardo · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Critical Race Theory in Education #Race, History, and American Society #Indigenous and Place-Based Education #Critical race theory #Critical theory #Sociology #Race (biology) #Gender studies #Racism #Racial formation theory #Racial bias #Political science #Law

paper · doi:10.1080/01596306.2013.822624

openalex publication_date 2013/08/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/23

Abstract

This article is an engagement of methodology as an ideologico-racial practice through Critical Race Theory's practice of storytelling. It is a conceptual extension of this practice as explained through Charles Mills' use of the ‘racial contract (RC) as methodology’ in order to explain the Herrenvolk Education – one standard for Whites, another for students of color – that is in place in the USA. At its most general, the article introduces the full offerings of Mills' RC methodology for a study of educational research. Once deployed, the RC as methodology unveils a school system's foundation as deeply racial rather than universal or race-neutral.

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