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CONTENTS ABSTRACT 287 INTRODUCTION 288 I. THE ATTACK ON CRITICAL RACE THEORY 289 II. THE CRITICAL RACE THEORY MOVEMENT AND ITS CRITICS 289 III. EXPLAINING THE ATTACK: INTEREST CONVERGENCE AND [...], Scholars such as Derrick Bell and Kyle Campbell have applied materialist tools such as interest convergence in an effort to understand past events such as Brown v. Board of Education or the career of slavery in the Caribbean. Can materialist analysis also explain recent events such as the conservative right's 2020-2022 attack on Critical Race Theory? This article suggests that it can and that recent events, such as the pandemic, Trump's electoral defeat, and school closures set the stage for the surprising attack.

I. INTRODUCTION II. THE INSULAR CASES IN SOCIO-HISTORICAL CONTEXT A. Downes v. Bidwell and the Doctrine of Territorial Incorporation B. Balzac v. Porto Rico and the Aftermath of the Insular [...]