Muscrit: towards carving a niche in critical race theory for the Muslim educational experience

ABSTRACT

Critical Race Theory (CRT) has provided academia a theoretical framework to engage in a conversation and explore the lived experiences of people as they are impacted by the endemic nature of racism. The creation of subsets within CRT have made space for minoritized populations in ways that are specific to them. The author proposes the creation of MusCrit as a means to explore the experiences of Muslim Americans with a CRT lens by sharing six tenets that are unique to the lived reality of this demographic.

KEYWORDS:

• Critical race theory
• MusCrit
• counter-narratives
• marginalization
• Islamophobia
• racialization
• Muslim-American

Disclosure statement

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