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2 Crit 1 (2009)
Will the Real CRT Please Stand Up - The Dangers of Philosophical Contributions to CRT

handle is hein.journals/tcrit2 and id is 1 raw text is: Winter 2009 WILL THE REAL CRT PLEASE STAND Up? THE DANGERS OF PHILOSOPHICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO CRT* Tommy J. Curry1 INTRODUCTION The recent pop culture iconography of the Critical Race Theory (CRT) label has attracted more devoted (white) fans than a 9os boy band. In philosophy, this trend is evidenced by the growing number of white feminists who extend their work in gender analogically to questions of race and identity. The trend is further evidenced by the unchecked use of the CRT label to describe (1) any work dealing with postcolonial authors like W.E.B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon or (2) the role postcolonial themes like power, discourse, and the unconscious play in the social constructionist era. While this misnomer may seem practically insignificant, the artifice formerly known as CRT in philosophy-more adequately labeled critical theories of race- has been axiomatically driven by the political ideals of integration and by a revisionist commentary that seeks to expand traditional philosophical ideas, such as reason, history, and humanity, which were previously closed off by racial borders, to people of color. This revision in the name of inclusion, however, is not without its consequences. In order to incorporate the experiences of those who suffer under the weight of modernity and are marred by the burdens of racism into the narration of Continental and American philosophy, the theoretical perspectives in Critical Race Theory that deny the legitimacy of philosophy's diversity agenda must necessarily be excluded In particular, this recent move to recognize the study of race as a category of philosophical relevance has resulted in the outright denial of the nationalist and revolutionary fervor contained in the intellectual history specific to the Critical Race Theory movement started by the works of I would like to thank Derrick Bell for his continued friendship and correspondence in regard to his thought, Cheryl Harris for encouraging me to write this piece, Saul Sarabia for asking the infamous question, Will the Real CRT Please Stand Up, that motivated my reflections in this article; Dean Peter Alexander for his feedback on this argument as part of my dissertation project; and last but not least, Gwenetta D. Curry, whose support enables me to continue writing. 1 Post Doctoral Fellow at Penn State University

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