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Your points about the origins of CRT are informative, and I accept them.
It may be that of late especially, either CRT has morphed somewhat, or other ideas which are not strictly-speaking 'CRT proper' have become attached and mingled with them.
It was never a unified whole, more a paradigm. Especially after Bell retired and passed on, eight years ago.
Just out of curiosity, where did Whiteness Studies originate? From the same black guys, or from different black guys?
ps I can only hope you read my appallingly belated edits when I'm replying to you.
All my best nuggets of insight are late arrivals. Or so I like to delude myself. Lol.
For me to complain about ninja edits would be the height of hypocrisy.
I would describe those two paradigms as separate but permeable, as they both arose around the same time (the early 1980s), but in different places and in different home disciplines. Certain works would surely be read by someone studying under either aegis- Baldwin, Allen, Bell himself. Unlike CRT, Whiteness studies were not meant to primarily address the situation in the US, being centered in part at British universities from the beginning and capturing a more global sense of "whiteness" and "blackness" that go beyond the questions of American politics. They tend to focus on cultural construction of whiteness and white identity more so than social construction of racist insitutions as per CRT. It is invariably asking questions about personal identity in a way that critical theory (of anything) purposefully does not. But, there is plenty of overlap and shared projects I am also certain.