种族批判理论(Critical Race Theory)生发于自由主义民权改革的深厚传统和新兴的批判法学运动,是用扬弃的观点弥合二者之间分歧的一种尝试。具体而言,种族批判理论既认为自由主义民权话语中的改革主义色彩正在逐渐消褪,又指出批判法学极度缺乏对种族问题的充分探讨。帕特里夏·威廉姆斯(Patricia Williams)是种族批判理论的中坚人物,其研究几乎涉及种族批判理论的所有重要话题。她一方面 The Critical Race Theory, a deep-rooted tradition of liberal civil rights reform and a new critical legal movement, is an attempt to bridge the gap between the two by using sublation. Specifically, the theory of racial criticism considers that the reformist colors in liberal civil rights discourse are gradually fading away, and also points out the extreme lack of critical discussion of racial issues in critical jurisprudence. Patricia Williams, the backbone of racial critical theory, studies almost all the important topics of racial critical theory. She is on the one hand