Critical race theory is growing in popularity in Britain. However, critics and advocates of critical race theory (CRT) in Britain have neglected the racialized social system approach. Through ignoring this approach, critics have thus “missed the target” in their rebuttals of CRT, while advocates of CRT have downplayed the strength of critical race analysis. By contrast, in this paper, I argue that that through the racialized social system approach, critical race theory has the conceptual flexibility to study British society. As a practical social theory, critical race theory provides us with the tools to study the realities and reproduction of racial inequality. To demonstrate this strength of CRT, and to demonstrate its theoretical nature, I discuss the conceptual framework of the racialized social system approach, paying specific attention to the notions of social space, the racial structure and racial interests; the racialized interaction order, racialized emotions, and structure and agency; and racial ideology, racial grammar, and racialized cognition.

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什么是批判种族理论，它在英国社会学中有什么作用？从“BritCrit”到种族化的社会制度方法

批判种族理论在英国越来越受欢迎。然而，英国批判种族理论（CRT）的批评者和倡导者忽视了种族化的社会制度方法。由于忽视了这种方法，批评者因此在他们对 CRT 的反驳中“错过了目标”，而 CRT 的支持者则淡化了批判种族分析的力量。相比之下，在本文中，我认为通过种族化的社会系统方法，批判种族理论具有研究英国社会的概念灵活性。作为一种实用的社会理论，批判种族理论为我们提供了研究种族不平等的现实和再生产的工具。为了展示 CRT 的这种优势，并展示其理论性质，我讨论了种族化社会系统方法的概念框架，特别关注社会空间、种族结构和种族利益的概念；种族化的互动秩序、种族化的情感、结构和代理；种族意识形态、种族语法和种族化认知。