Center for Critical Race Studies in Education at UCLA

Interested in historical scholarship through a critical frame? Take a stroll through the collective knowledge and community memory of Communities of Color, through Critical Race Educational History (CREH). Read the guiding principles in the amazing research brief that Dr. Ryan Santos, Dr. Michaela J. López Mares-Tamayo, and Dr. Lluliana Alonso wrote to engage in research using CREH.

Conceptualizing a Critical Race Educational History M**hodology In their foundational piece on Critical Race Theory (CRT) and education, Gloria Ladson-Billings and William F. Tate (1995) wrote, “Historically, storytelling has been a kind of medicine to heal the wounds of pain caused by racial oppression” (p. 57). As Critical Race theorists, we are especially...

Want to learn more about Asian American Critical Race Theory (AsianCrit)? Dr. Ed Curammeng, Dr. Tracy Lachica Buenavista, and Dr. Steph Cariaga wrote a great piece using AsianCrit to provide a brief overview of how the Asian American community has historically been affected by the law, their scholarship with education, and the future directions of the field.

Asian American Critical Race Theory: Origins, Directions, and Praxis Asian American Critical Race Theory is one of numerous group-specific Critical Race Theory (CRT) movements that emerged to address the complex racialization of people of Asian descent in the United States. In particular, Asian American Critical Race scholars document a legacy of state-sanctioned, an...

Have you ever participated in a counterspace or helped in the co-construction of one? Want to learn more about counterspaces with youth in K-12 settings? Then make sure to read how Dra. Socorro Morales re-defines counterspaces by taking gender into account.

Re-defining Counterspaces: New Directions and Implications for Research and Praxis I spent two years as a researcher and educator collaborating with elementary aged Brown youth in creating, developing, and sustaining a Critical Race Counterspace within their elementary school. Drawing from Critical Race Theory (CRT) scholars within the field of education, I initially understood co...

Have you heard about muxerista portraiture? It's a rich methodology derived from portraiture and Chicana/Latina feminist theory. Make sure to read on muxerista portraiture by Dra. Alma Itzé Flores!

Muxerista Portraiture: Portraiture with a Chicana/Latina Feminist Sensibility Moved by Gloria Anzaldúa’s (1990) call for nueva teorías, in this research brief I outline what I refer to as muxerista portraiture. As a meXicana (pronounced me-chi-cana) scholar who examines Mexicana/Chicana mother-daughter pedagogies, I argue for the partnership of portraiture (Lawrence-Light...

Interested in learning more about internalized racism and the effects it has on People of Color? Read this amazing research brief by Dr. Rita Kohli on internalized racism.

Internalized Racism: The Consequences and Impact of Racism on People of Color Although heightened by the current hate-filled platform of the 45th U.S. President, scholars of Critical Race Theory (CRT) have exposed racism as a permanent fixture in the policies and practices that govern U.S. and other settler colonial and colonial societies. As people of Color are subjected to....

Want to revisit community cultural wealth? Read this great research brief by Dr. Tara Yosso and Dr. Rebeca Burciaga!

Reclaiming Our Histories, Recovering Community Cultural Wealth Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get them in front of Issuu’s millions of monthly readers. Title: Reclaiming Our Histories, Recovering Community Cultural Wealth, Author...

Looking for methodological approaches that use CRT? Check out how Dr. Lluliana Alonso uses Critical Race History M**hodology to uncover the counterstory of Consuelo Rivera.

Finding Consuelo Rivera: Linking Critical Race Theory and History M**hodologies Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get them in front of Issuu’s millions of monthly readers. Title: Finding Consuelo Rivera: Linking Critical Race Theory and History M**h...

Experiencing racial microaggressions and want to know more about the history and future direction of the work? Then make sure to look at Dr. Kenjus Watson and Dr. Lindsay Pérez Huber’s research brief on racial microaggressions.

Micro In Name Only: Looking Back to Move Forward in Racial Microaggression Research Racial microaggressions are a form of systemic racism that (a) are verbal and non-verbal assaults directed toward People of Color , often carried out automatically or unconsciously; (b) are based on a Person of Color’s race, gender, class, sexuality, language, immigration status, phenotype, accent...

Interested in learning more about the psychological and physiological impacts of racism for Communities of Color? Then make sure to read Dr. William Smith's research brief on gendered racism and racial battle fatigue!

Understanding the Corollaries of Offensive Racial Mechanisms, Gendered Racism, and Racial Battle Fat Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get them in front of Issuu’s millions of monthly readers. Title: Understanding the Corollaries of Offensive Racial Mechanisms, Gendered...

Want to know more about cultural intuition but haven't had the chance to read up on it! Check out this research brief on the genealogy of cultural intuition by the amazing Dra. Dolores Delgado Bernal :)

Cultural Intuition: Then, Now, and Into the Future Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get them in front of Issuu’s millions of monthly readers. Title: Cultural Intuition: Then, Now, and Into the Future, Author: Center for...

Join us on Friday, May 18!! "Visions of Justice and Liberation" symposium in collaboration with InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies :)

Symposium on “Visions of Justice & Liberation” Explores Interdisciplinary Activism | UCLA GSE&IS Ampersand Symposium on “Visions of Justice & Liberation” Explores Interdisciplinary Activism By Tanya Gaxiola Serrano & Joanie Harmon Event presented by the Center for Critical Race Studies and InterActions Journal includes keynotes by artist/activist Edxie Betts and Michelle Téllez of the University of ...