• Critical Race Theory (CRT) in education has been advanced as a narrative, counter-storytelling-based methodology that interrupts deficit frames and surfaces marginalized voices, guiding qualitative inquiry and policy critique [12], [8], [18], [1], [19].

• Critical Race Theory (CRT) scholarship foregrounds intersectionality—how race, gender, sexuality, and class shape oppression—driving analyses of violence against women of color, microaggressions, and identity politics across education and law [7], [6], [9], [19].

• Critical Race Theory (CRT) critiques color-blind racism and liberal racial ideology, arguing that structural racism persists beyond individual prejudice in law, schooling, and social policy [11], [13], [20], [18].

• Critical Race Theory (CRT) interrogates knowledge production and legitimacy within academia, exposing how white supremacy shapes curricula, tenure, and 'legitimate' knowledge, and seeking alternative epistemologies [14], [17], [4].

• Critical Race Theory (CRT) emphasizes education-specific reform and resistance, using classroom and policy analysis to advocate transformative teaching, equity-focused curricula, and anti-racist school reform [1], [15], [16], [8], [19].