Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Br J Sociol. 2021 Mar;72(2):347-359. doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.12801. Epub 2020 Dec 24.
Critical race theory is growing in popularity in Britain. However, critics and advocates of critical race theory (CRT) in Britain have neglected the racialized social system approach. Through ignoring this approach, critics have thus "missed the target" in their rebuttals of CRT, while advocates of CRT have downplayed the strength of critical race analysis. By contrast, in this paper, I argue that that through the racialized social system approach, critical race theory has the conceptual flexibility to study British society. As a practical social theory, critical race theory provides us with the tools to study the realities and reproduction of racial inequality. To demonstrate this strength of CRT, and to demonstrate its theoretical nature, I discuss the conceptual framework of the racialized social system approach, paying specific attention to the notions of social space, the racial structure and racial interests; the racialized interaction order, racialized emotions, and structure and agency; and racial ideology, racial grammar, and racialized cognition.
批判种族理论在英国越来越受欢迎。然而，英国批判种族理论（CRT）的批评者和拥护者忽视了种族化社会制度方法。通过忽视这种方法，批评者在反驳 CRT 时“打偏了靶子”，而 CRT 的拥护者则低估了批判种族分析的力度。相比之下，在本文中，我认为，通过种族化社会制度方法，批判种族理论具有研究英国社会的概念灵活性。作为一种实用的社会理论，批判种族理论为我们提供了研究种族不平等的现实和再生产的工具。为了展示 CRT 的这种力量，并展示其理论性质，我讨论了种族化社会制度方法的概念框架，特别关注社会空间、种族结构和种族利益的概念；种族化互动秩序、种族化情感以及结构和机构；以及种族意识形态、种族语法和种族化认知。
