About us
Why choose CRSEA?
The Critical Race Studies in Education Association (CRSEA) is an interdisciplinary consortium of experts who recognize global implications of race and education for minoritized people. We provide faculty, staff, and graduate student scholars with various opportunities to critically engage, reflect, and build in community.
Monthly Workshops
We offer monthly workshops on a variety of topics related to racial justice, educational equity, anti-Blackness/white supremacy, and a host of other important topics!
Access to Mentoring
We have a robust community of passionate professionals across a wide range of professional backgrounds and lived experiences ready to welcome you.
Decreased Conference Fee
Members have the added benefit of paying less when they register to attend our annual conference.
Our sponsors
Tenets of CRT:
8 Principles
Critical Race Theory (CRT) is an organic field, continually developing to reflect the changes needed to dismantle white supremacy, and as such the number of major principles are not set in stone. As a result, major themes across CRT literature can be represented by the following 8 principles:
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Racial Realism
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Critique of [neo] Liberalism/Neo-Marxist
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Racial Legal Justice
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Whiteness as Property
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Intersectionality
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Interest Convergence/Material Determinism
07.
Story and Counter-storytelling
08.
Elevation of Pragmatic Knowledge
What members Say
I love CRSEA because it’s a community that is grounded and invested in holistic support of each other!
Luz Burgos-Lopez
Doctoral Student | University of CT-Storrs
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The CRSEA community is growing and there has never been a better time to join than right now!