Abstract

zine magubane provides a thorough and cogent critique of Critical Race Theory and Critical Race Theory-inspired sociology of race from a Marxist perspective. Magubane explains that Critical Race Theory and sociology of race posit a deeply ingrained racial structure at the base of American society and its institutions and collective concepts. This racial structure is argued to be a permanent fixture of American history that undergirds a variety of projects of oppression, from slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration and the War on Drugs. Magubane’s contention, in brief, is that, by placing racial structure and discrimination at the center of their analyses, these areas of scholarship occlude important elements of... Read More.