How Does Critical Race Theory Differ from Earlier Versions of Race

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Essay

How does Critical Race Theory differ from earlier versions of race theories? Is its focus more or less narrow than constructionist views of race? On balance, which do you think is better at explaining contemporary racial inequality?

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Definitions:

Descriptive Statistics

Descriptive statistics summarize and describe the main features of a dataset through measures such as mean, median, and standard deviation.

Population

The entire group of individuals or instances about whom we hope to learn.

Relative Frequency Distribution

A statistical measure that shows the number of occurrences of each value of a variable relative to the total number of occurrences in a dataset.

Mutually Exclusive

Events or outcomes that cannot happen at the same time, meaning the occurrence of one event excludes the possibility of the other event.