What Is Malsbary´s Critical Race Theory?

Here in the United States, we, historically, have had countless instances, occurrences, and notable events related to racism, discrimination, slavery, and more. Social (and racial) relations in this nation have been constantly changing since the 16th century. In the decades after civil rights, however, these relations between people of different ethnic and racial backgrounds have improved significantly. Despite this fact, one can still argue that there are racist attitudes that continue to exist, especially in social institutions such as our educational system, where researchers have found that non-native ESL students are facing institutional racism mainly based on the concept of language.
Media depictions of institutional language-racism
373). Critical race theory is a notion that provides critical analyses on the subject of race, racism, and discrimination from a legal perspective. Specifically, she focuses on an ethnographic study that she has conducted at a high school’s ESL program. According to Malsbary, “Results demonstrate how race-language processes create conditions that traumatize immigrant and bilingual youth of color through embodied nativist policies” (Malsbary, 2014, p. 373). There lies evidence in these statements that clearly implies Malsbary is attempting to gain a contextualized view of the issue of language-racism in the way that she relies on her own research to give a formal and truthful background from her personal perspective. She discusses the history of relevant topics such as civil rights, educational policies (e.g the No Child Left Behind act) and the relationship conflicts between race and language, in addition to data gathered from her study, to add historical information and
These are issues that have been discussed both in the news, as seen through the writings of a news reporter, and in academic and scientific literature, as seen through the eyes of an anthropological researcher. Nearly all of society’s problems can be viewed more efficiently when read from an anthropological (or sociological) perspective for many reasons. The most significant purpose of looking at an issue through an anthropological viewpoint, however, would be the fact that scientific studies tend to expose much more truth, details, and information about the issue’s causes, effects, context, and prevalence because of what the research and data conveys in contrast to what is shown on the