Essay Questions
Answer one of two
8-10 Pages
Cover page and references not counted
1) What is the history and conceptual elements of Critical Race Theory (CRT)? Using CRT as your guiding framework, you should start with clearly outlining the historical events and scholars that gave rise to the movement.
2) Professor Cheryl Harris in her article (1993). Whiteness as Property. Harvard Law Review, 106(8), 1707–1791.) posits that racial identity and property are deeply interrelated concepts.
Professor Harris examines how whiteness, initially constructed as a form of racial identity, evolved into a form of property, historically and presently acknowledged and protected in American law. Using Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a guiding framework, please engage in a more expansive critical analytical explanation of this statement?
