Can You Define Critical Race Theory?

Critical race theory is notoriously ill-defined, even in the literature that espouses it. It came out of an offshoot of Marxist thought in the 1930s. The original critical theories as they came out of the 1930s were almost entirely focused on labor and class. What happens with critical race theory: They take that general framework and they supplant class with race,. There are other types of critical theories; there's critical gender theory for example.