I re-read the classic anthology about Critical Race Theory

The moral panic about critical race theory in the US has sometimes made its way to Europe (where it is usually rebranded as a “postcolonialism”-controversy). Given that what conservatives describe as “CRT” often bears very little relationship to what scholars have elaborated under that moniker, I think it’s worth paying close attention to the transformation. So I decided to re-read the famous edited volume Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement (ed. by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller and Kendall Thomas), published in 1996. My survey of the volume appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.