Robin DiAngelo Is a

Critical Race Scholar

Don’t Lie.
“That’s not REAL Critical Race Theory!”
The popularity and success of Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility” exposed Critical
Race Theory to a wider, more sceptical audience. Critical Race Theory
apologists scrambled to defend CRT's honour by claiming DiAngelo isn't a "real"
Critical Race Scholar.

This is the same “No True Scotsman” game Socialists play when they are
questioned about North Korea or Venezuela. Kristian Niemietz documents this in
"Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies".
“That’s not REAL Critical Race Theory!”
“There hasn’t been a shred of socialism in the
Soviet Union. It’s got nothing to do with
socialism.”

Professor Noam Chomsky

“That’s not REAL Critical Race Theory!”
"A socialist society doesn’t exist yet, but one
day it must."

Owen Jones, "My thoughts on Cuba", 2016

“That’s not REAL Critical Race Theory!”
“The primary lesson here is not about
‘egalitarianism’ or ‘socialism’ or even
‘communism’ since Castro, Mao, Stalin, and
Lenin did not actually attempt to implement
any of those ideas.”

Nathan J. Robinson, "How To Be a Socialist

Without Being an Apologist For The Atrocities Of
Communist Regimes", Current Affairs, 2017
“That’s not REAL Critical Race Theory!”
“The struggle between communism and
capitalism never happened. The Soviets
didn’t establish communism.”

Professor Richard Wolff, "Class Theory and

History: Capitalism and Communism in the
USSR"
“That’s not REAL Critical Race Theory!”
“Socialism has never been tried.”

The Socialist Party of Great Britain, 1999

Robin DiAngelo is a Critical Race Scholar

Robin DiAngelo: About Me

Robin DiAngelo is a Critical Race Scholar

Robin DiAngelo: About Me

Whiteness Studies is Critical Race Theory
Whiteness Studies is Critical Race Theory

Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, Richard Delgado, Pg 7

Whiteness Studies is Critical Race Theory

Wikipedia: Whiteness Studies

Whiteness Studies is Critical Race Theory

Racial Literacy in a Second-Grade Classroom: Critical Race Theory,

Whiteness Studies, and Literacy Research
Whiteness Studies is Critical Race Theory

“What is Critical Whiteness Doing in OUR Nice Field like Critical Race
Theory?” Applying CRT and CWS to Understand the White Imaginations of
White Teacher Candidates
Critical Race Theorists refer to Whiteness Studies Scholars as Critical Race Scholars

Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media,

and Education, A Review By Critical Race Theorist Aja Y. Martinez
Whiteness Studies Scholars Are Critical Race Scholars

"Why Whiteness Studies Is Important to Rhetoric and Composition Studies", Krista Ratcliffe

Arizona State University, Faculty and Staff, Krista Ratcliffe

Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Race
Theory both derive from Critical Theory
Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Race Theory both derive from Critical Theory
“Current forms of Critical Discourse Analysis
are almost all strongly influenced by Critical
Theory.”
"Cultural Studies, Critical Theory and Critical
Discourse Analysis", Terry Threadgold
“Bell and other legal scholars began using the
phrase ‘Critical Race Theory’ (CRT) in the
1970s as a takeoff on ‘Critical Legal Theory’, a
branch of legal scholarship that challenges the
validity of concepts such as rationality, objective
truth, and judicial neutrality. Critical Legal
Theory was itself a takeoff on Critical Theory,
a philosophical framework with roots in Marxist
thought.”
Wikipedia: Derrick Bell (Critical Race Theorist)
Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Race Theory both derive from Critical Theory

“[Critical Discourse Analysis] draws from
social theory—and contributions from Karl
Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Louis
Althusser, Jürgen Habermas, Michel
Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu—in order to
examine ideologies and power relations
involved in discourse.[1]”
“Critical scholars derive their vision of legal
ideology in part from the work of Antonio
Gramsci, an Italian neo-Marxist theorist…”
“Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That
Formed the Movement”, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Pg
108

Wikipedia: Critical Discourse Analysis

References and Citations
DiAngelo says she uses Critical Theory

Addressing Whiteness in Nursing Education, Robin DiAngelo

References to Critical Race Theory in DiAngelo’s Work

Is Everyone Really Equal? An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice

Education, Robin DiAngelo
References to Critical Race Theory in DiAngelo’s Work

"White Fragility", Robin DiAngelo, Pg 24, 64, 134

DiAngelo’s “White Fragility” Assigned As Critical Race Theory Material In University

University of Florida, Levin College of Law, Critical Race Theory Coursework

Wheaton College Cites Robin DiAngelo Alongside
Critical Race Theory Resources

Wheaton College: Becoming an Anti-Racist Educator

Podcast Interview: Robin DiAngelo Introduced as a Critical Race Theorist

Queerology Podcast: Episode 3, Robin DiAngelo

Robin DiAngelo Talk: “Critical Racial & Social Justice Education”
“DiAngelo is just a Diversity Consultant.”
Critical Race Obscurantist: “DiAngelo is just a Diversity Consultant.”

How does consulting discredit DiAngelo as a Critical Race Scholar? Critical Race
Theory has a “Praxis” (Revolutionary Action) component.

“Emancipatory inquiries are defined as ‘ideologies that seek to understand

oppression in society and, through this understanding, transform it.’”

Addressing Whiteness in Nursing Education, Robin DiAngelo

DiAngelo’s diversity consulting is doing just that. It’s Critical Race “Praxis”.
Why all the effort to discredit Robin DiAngelo?
Why do Critical Race Apologists spend so much effort on obscurantist apologia?
Critical Race Theory rejects the concept of objective truth, so they can
simply say CRT is whatever they want at any moment, in order to “win” the
argument with the Disbelievers:

“For the critical race theorist, objective truth, like merit, does not exist, at least
in social science and politics. In these realms, truth is a social construct
created to suit the purposes of the dominant group.”

Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, Richard Delgado, Pg 92