##  [Critical Race Theory](/index.php/critical-race-theory) 

  ##  [Critical Race Theory](https://social.quantumdictionary.io/critical-race-theory-0) 

  

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Definition

An interdisciplinary framework that analyzes how law, institutions, policies, and social practices systematically produce and reproduce racial hierarchies and inequalities, emphasizing that racism can be embedded in structures and norms (not only individual prejudice) and that race intersects with other axes of power.