The Framework Grows: A Collaborative Revision of Gifted and Talented Critical Race Theory for the Students We Have Not Yet Seen

Gifted and talented Black, Brown, and Indigenous students are not voiceless; their voices are suffocated by systemic racism, white supremacy, and ongoing colonization. The field of gifted and talented education must advocate for needed structural and systemic change through the discourse of critical race theory; thus, we present a model of gifted and talented critical race studies (GTCrit) as both a way to understand race and racism in gifted and talented education and drive social change. GTCrit theorizes about the ways in which race, racism, colonization, linguicism, antiblackness, ability, potentiality, and deficit ideology are built into daily interactions and discourses, informal and formal policies and procedures, and systems and structures of education, which disproportionately impact students of color qualitatively differently than white students. We provide seven framing tenets with implications for educators, administrators, and researchers.