How Does Minority Status Affect Minorities?

reality. Thus, races are essentially categories that society invents, manipulates or retires. The fourth tenet is differential racialization, the idea that race has an ever- evolving history. In addition, CRT highlights the importance of intersectionality, where no single individual is a unitary entity, but instead is multifaceted and has many different identities. The final element of CRT is the notion of the unique voice of color. This is the notion that because individuals of color have their own histories and experiences of oppression, they communicate stories that Whites are unlikely to know. Consequently, CRT scholars would argue that minority status has an inherent competence to speak about race and racism (Delgado & Stefancic, 2001;