Critical Race Theory, Latino Critical Theory, and Critical Raced-Gendered Epistemologies: Recognizing Students of Color as Holders and Creators of Knowledge

2002/02/01 by Dolores Delgado Bernal · 4 citations
Social Sciences · #Critical Race Theory in Education #Teacher Education and Leadership Studies #Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy #Critical race theory #Critical theory #Sociology #Perspective (graphical) #Race (biology) #Gender studies #Field (mathematics) #Qualitative research #Epistemology #Pedagogy #Social science

paper · doi:10.1177/107780040200800107

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Abstract

For too long, the histories, experiences, cultures, and languages of students of color have been devalued, misinterpreted, or omitted within formal educational settings. In this article, the author uses critical race theory (CRT) and Latina/Latino critical theory (LatCrit) to demonstrate how critical raced-gendered epistemologies recognize students of color as holders and creators of knowledge. In doing so, she discusses how CRT and LatCrit provide an appropriate lens for qualitative research in the field of education. She then compares and contrasts the experiences of Chicana/Chicano students through a Eurocentric and a critical raced-gendered epistemological perspective and demonstrates that each perspective holds vastly different views of what counts as knowledge, specifically regarding language, culture, and commitment to communities. She then offers implications of critical raced-gendered epistemologies for both research and practice and concludes by discussing some of the critiques of the use of these epistemologies in educational research.

Citations

• Examining Transformational Resistance Through a Critical Race and Latcrit Theory Framework
• Funds of knowledge for teaching: Using a qualitative approach to connect homes and classrooms
• 1. Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
• Critical Race Theory and Ethnographies Challenging the Stereotypes: Latino Families, Schooling, Resilience and Resistance

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