A Mixtape Reasoning on Critical Race Theory (2021)

“A Mixtape Reasoning on Critical Race Theory,” offers a personal and culturally rooted reflection on Critical Race Theory (CRT), grounding it in lived Black experience. Drawing on an upbringing in Britain as a Black son, the project illustrates how narratives of racial injustice — from housing discrimination to educational bias, and state-sanctioned policing — are internalized through everyday life: family stories, reggae records, and community memory.

Structured as a five-part “mixtape,” the piece explores various themes: identity and belonging (“On Being a Black Son”), the shortcomings of performative solidarity (“On Solidarity”), the emotional burden shouldered by Black educators and students (“On Black Tax and Education”), the racialized fallout of public events such as national sports and the persistence of anti-Black backlash (“On Rashford, Sancho and Saka”), and solidarity across struggles — culminating in reflections on global oppression, trauma, and resistance (“On Palestine and Pessimism”).