Race, gender, and class have all been common interests in our American society since before the civil rights movement until today and will continue to do so to be. Many theories have been developed with the aim of analyzing these concepts of human life and genetics in the context of society. Critical race theory, a modern approach to subtle racism and discrimination in institutional society and in our American law, is one such theory that constructs the ideas linking race, gender, and class to American company. All groups of people are affected by racism and discrimination throughout the United States. Arab Americans and the Sioux, a Native American group, are two groups that I will analyze in relation to critical race theory. First of all, it is important to know what Critical Race Theory is and where it comes from. Critical race theory came from a number of scholars, mostly of color and from the law school, who "questions the ways in which race and racial power are constructed and represented in the American legal culture and, more generally, in American society as a whole (Crenshaw, Gotanda, Peller, & Thomas, 1995, p. Critical race theory "rejects the prevailing orthodoxy that scholarship should or could be " neutral” and “objective.” We believe that legal studies of race in America can never be written with detachment or with an attitude of objectivity. To the extent that racial power is exercised legally and ideologically, legal studies on. race constitute an important site for the construction of this power and therefore always constitute a factor, if only ideologically, in the economy of racial power itself (Crenshaw et al. 1995, p. xi). In other words, critical race theory is a belief that racism is almost rooted in...... middle of article... Myths of Muslim Women: The Influence of Islam on the activity of Arab-American women in the labor market. Muslim World, 92(1/2), 19. Retrieved from EBSCOhost. Sabbagh, SJ and American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee, WC (1990). Sex, lies and stereotypes: the image of Arabs in popular American fiction. ADC Thematic Paper No. 23. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.SMITH, K. (2010). “I look upon you…as my children”: persistence and change in Cherokee motherhood, 1750-1835. North Carolina Historical Review, 87(4), 403-430. Taken from EBSCOhost. Sturm, C. (1998). Blood Politics, Racial Classification, and Cherokee National Identity. American Indian Quarterly, 22(1/2), 230. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.Social Learning Theory. (nd). At the University of South Alabama. Retrieved February 13, 2011 from http://www.southalabama.edu/oll/mobile/theory_workbook/social_learning_theory.htm