21ST - Lesson2

ACTIVITY 4: Determine the Tenets
1. "I hate a wasted journey--I am African." Silence.

Silenced transmission of Pressurized good breeding.
Voice, when it came, Lipstick coated, long gold-rolled
Cigarette-holder pipped. Caught I was foully. "HOW
DARK?" . . . I had not misheard . . . "ARE YOU LIGHT
OR VERY DARK?" Button B, Button A.* Stench
– Telephone Conversation (W. Soyinka)
Basic Tenet: Unique voice of Color.
Keywords: "HOW DARK?” and "ARE YOU LIGHT OR
VERY DARK?"
2. A white woman stands bereft and empty

a black boy hacked into a murderous lesson recalled in
me forever like a lurch of earth on the edge of sleep
etched into my visions food for dragonfish that learn to
live upon whatever they must eat fused images beneath
my pain.
– Afterimages (A. Lorde)
Basic Tenet: Social Construction.
Keywords: “A white woman…a black boy”
3. The free bird thinks of another breeze and the trade winds
soft through the sighing trees and the fat worms waiting
on a dawn bright lawn and he names the sky his own a
caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow
shouts on a nightmare scream wing are clipped and his
feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.
– Caged bird (M. Angelou)
Basic Tenet: Intersectionality
Keywords: Free bird and A caged bird.
ACITIVITY 6: What I remember
1. What is being tackled in the Critical Race Theory?
The Critical Race Theory investigates the facets

of racism and race throughout covering the expense of
significant modes of cultural expression. CRT also links
the race, racism, and power. This theory allows people to
comprehend and understand the implications of personal
construct of race to the racism victims and how the
oppressed represent themselves to combat the prejudice
that is a product of racism.
2. Why do scholars use the Racism ideology in different

texts, not just in literature?
The approach of Racism ideology is not merely
determining the racism, racial discrimination, and racial
injustices, it covers a large surface of ideas such as
emphasizing the significance and implications of
investigating and understanding the socio- cultural factors
that molds the way people view and responds to racism.
Moreover, it illustrates not only how society still

exist but why this persistent racism make it challenging
for citizens to exercise many of the fundamental freedoms
given in the United States' founding documents. It also
finds a mechanism for scholars to examine how racism
interacts with other identities like as gender and class, as
advocates pay attention to the numerous components that
define individual identity. As a result, CRT has evolved
over the years to address the numerous issues that people
affected by racism face. Lastly, CRT scholarship does not
only draw attention to and address the concerns of
individual affected by racism, but also those who
perpetrate and are seemingly unaffected by racial
prejudice.
3. How do we distinguish the different tenets of CRT?
The different tenets of Critical Race Theory can

be distinguished based on how it views racism, how
racism works, and how racism affects the minority group.
The Ordinariness or epidemic racism seems to be
instilled in the society which makes it hard to be
addressed and junked. For better understanding, the
ordinariness refers to economic, social, and political
privileges granted to the white group in contrast to the
colored group based on their racial identity. The Interest
convergence is the idea that the whites or majority will
only support the minority’s if it’s beneficial to them or
their ideas interests. Social Construction refers to the
belief that race is a product of social idea and relations.
Differential Racialization refers to the concept wherein
the majority group racializes the minority group based on
the shifting needs. Intersectionality and anti-essentialism
refer to the notion no person or individual inculcates a
single identity. The unique voice of color refers to the
idea that due to the narrative established from the
experience of the oppressed group, they may be able to
communicate to their white counterparts matters that the
whites are unlikely to know

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ACTIVITY 4: Determine the Tenets

1. "I hate a wasted journey--I am African." Silence.

2. A white woman stands bereft and empty

ACITIVITY 6: What I remember

1. What is being tackled in the Critical Race Theory?

The Critical Race Theory investigates the facets

2. Why do scholars use the Racism ideology in different

Moreover, it illustrates not only how society still

3. How do we distinguish the different tenets of CRT?

The different tenets of Critical Race Theory can

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