Tagged: voice-of-color theory

“[T]he voice-of-color thesis holds that because of their different histories and experiences with oppression, black, Indian, Asian, and Latino/a writers and thinkers may be able to communicate to their white counterparts matters that whites are unlikely to know. Minority status, in other words, brings with it a presumed competence to speak about race and racism.”

Source: Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic. Critical Race Theory: An Introduction. pg. 9. 2001.