Social Sciences

The broadly defined Social Sciences include areas such as cultural studies, urban studies, and social work. Sentences that come directly from the article are in quotation marks. CSUN students, faculty, and staff can access most articles through the University Library using CSUN credentials. Please use the library鈥檚 interlibrary loan services if an article of interest is not available.

Aguilar, C. (2019).听.听Cultural Studies 鈫� Critical Methodologies, 19(3), 152鈥�160. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708618817911

  • Aguilar introduces the central tenets of a developing theory that he calls Undocumented Critical Theory (UndocuCrit) 鈥渢o better understand the nuanced and liminal experiences that characterize undocumented communities鈥� in the U.S. As a theoretical framework, UndocuCrit 鈥渃hallenges an immigrant binary rhetoric.鈥�

Arudou, D. (2015). Japan鈥檚 under-researched visible minorities: Applying critical race theory to racialization dynamics in a non-White society.听Washington University Global Studies Law Review, 14(4), 695鈥�723.

  • Although CRT is applied primarily to countries and societies with Caucasian majorities to analyze White privilege, this article applies CRT to Japan, a non-White majority society. After discussing how scholarship on Japan has hitherto ignored the effects of skin color on the concept of 鈥淛apaneseness,鈥� Arudou examines an example of published research on the Post-WWII 鈥渒onketsuji problem,鈥� that is, the existence of 鈥渕ixed-blood children鈥� in Japanese society (mostly from Japanese and non-Japanese unions during the American Occupation of Japan).

Blessett, B. (2020).听.听American Review of Public Administration, 50(8), 838鈥�850. https://doi.org/10.1177/0275074020930358

  • This article uses CRT 鈥渢o examine the implementation of one of the first full-scale urban renewal rehabilitation projects in Baltimore, Maryland.鈥� Using a race-conscious lens, 鈥渢he tools of government (e.g., economic, institutional, personnel, and linguistic) are examined to contextualize how administrative decisions produced racially disproportionate outcomes for Black residents in the Harlem Park neighborhood.鈥�

Bohonos, J. W. (2021).听.听Gender, Work and Organization, 28(1), 54鈥�66. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12512

  • This study applies CRT 鈥渢o analyze the dynamic intersection between the racial and gender privilege available to working鈥恈lass White men from their position of social and economic marginality.鈥� It empirically 鈥渂uilds on the ethnographic study of a small North American company in the construction industry.鈥�

Gonzalez-Sobrino, B., & Goss, D. R. (2019).听.听Ethnic and Racial Studies, 42(4), 505鈥�510. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2018.1444781

  • This special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies focuses on the mechanisms that undergird the operation of racialization. It empirically defines 鈥渢he specific mechanisms by which racialization outside of black鈥搘hite paradigm operates, in order to add knowledge to exactly how and why racialization happens.鈥� It emphasizes racialization 鈥渂eyond black and white racial categories from a broad perspective, including both global and interdisciplinary perspectives.鈥�

Hall, R. E. (2018).听.听American Behavioral Scientist, 62(14), 2133鈥�2145. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764218810755

  • By globalization, a 鈥渞acial world order exists by locating light skin at the zenith of humanity.鈥� The existence of a racist racial hierarchy, which replaces racism with colorism, necessitates us to move beyond race category. This article discusses: (a) the globalization of light skin, and (b) from CRT to critical skin theory.

Hartmann, D., Gerteis, J., & Croll, P. R. (2009).听听Social Problems, 56(3), 403鈥�424. https://doi.org/10.1525/sp.2009.56.3.403

  • This paper employs data from a national survey to offer an empirical assessment of core theoretical tenets of Whiteness studies. The authors analyze three propositions 鈥渞elating to whites' awareness and conception of their own racial status: the invisibility of white identity; the understanding (or lack thereof) of racial privileges; and adherence to individualistic, color-blind ideals.鈥�

Hernandez, T. K. (2000). Exploration of the efficacy of class-based approaches to racial justice: The Cuban context.听U.C. Davis Law Review, 33(4), 1135鈥�1172.

  • Hernandez discusses the Cuban class-based approach to racial inequality and how the Cuban history of racial subordination continues to influence Cuba's political economy. Drawing upon the Cuban context, Hernandez concludes that 鈥渢he Cuban and Latin American propensity for suppressing Afro-Lat identity may impede LatCrit theory's antisubordination goal鈥� for Latinx and other communities of color in the U.S.

Jeffers, J. L. (2019).听听Social Work in Public Health, 34(1), 113鈥�121. https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2018.1562404

  • Through the CRT lens, 鈥渢his article examines race and the criminal justice system by reviewing specific aspects of the legal system and its arbitrary application of the system鈥檚 significant discretionary power, which is a major influencer in the disparate incarceration rates for people of color.鈥�

Johnson-Ahorlu, R. N. (2017).听.听The Urban Review, 49(5), 729鈥�745. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11256-017-0419-8

  • This study explores 鈥渉ow CRT research, when joined with the efforts of activists, is even more potent with capacity to realize social justice.鈥� In the paper, the tenets of CRT in education 鈥渟erve as the foundation of a model that reveal how each tenet can shape research designs that inform decision making in social movement strategy development. The model is inspired by the author鈥檚 personal experiences with combining CRT research with social movement strategy development.鈥�

Kerrison, E. M. (2018).听.听Social Science & Medicine, 199, 140鈥�147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.08.002

  • This research examines the interview narratives of 300 former prisoners who participated in a minimum of 12 months of prison-based therapeutic community programming. It explores 鈥渢he significance of language and identity construction in these carceral spaces, and how treatment providers as well as agency agendas are implicated in the reproduction of racial disparities in substance abuse recovery.鈥�

Lemmons, B. P., & Johnson, W. E. (2019).听.听Social Work in Public Health, 34(1), 86鈥�101. https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2018.1562406

  • Applying the basic tenets of CRT and Michelle Alexander鈥檚 (2012) notion of Racialized 鈥淕ame Changing,鈥� this article 鈥渆xamines the social, political, and economic factors that have worked to undermine normative Black fatherhood involvement and family formation patterns over time.鈥� It also discusses 鈥渇actors that underlie the changes in Black family structure and formation over time.鈥�

Limbert, W. M., & Bullock, H. E. (2005).听.听Feminism & Psychology, 15(3), 253鈥�274. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959-353505054715

  • The authors draw on CRT and critical race feminism to deconstruct contemporary U.S. welfare policy. 鈥淭he political framing of work requirements, single motherhood, and 鈥榗itizenship鈥� under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 are used to illustrate the racism, sexism, and classism that pervade current regulations.鈥� Drawing on Hurtado鈥檚 (1996) conceptualization of the 鈥楶endejo Game,鈥� the authors argue that 鈥減olitical elites feign ignorance of poverty and structural inequities to legitimate policies that maintain economic disparities.鈥�

McKay, C. (2008).听.听Educational Gerontology, 34(8), 670鈥�690. https://doi.org/10.1080/03601270801981149

  • Integrating elements of oppression psychology, Popular Education (1999), critical pedagogy, and CRT, this article highlights a study of seven African American elders who graduated from a Senior Advocacy Leadership Training (SALT) program. These elders confronted external and internal oppressive ideologies and challenged the stereotypes of African American elders.

Woodson, A. N. (2019).听.听Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 50(1), 26鈥�47. https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.12277

  • This article uses 鈥渢he construct of racial code word to advance theory about unspoken, racialized expectations that accompany seemingly neutral historical concepts.鈥� Critical race ethnographic methods were used to examine how eight Black teenagers made sense of the term 鈥渃ivil rights leader鈥� and the assumptions that supported their sense鈥恗aking. Data reveal 鈥渢ension between ideals of whiteness in popular stories about black activism and the possible and desired civic identities of participants.鈥�