This entry examines Critical Race Theory (CRT) as an interdisciplinary field of critical analysis of structural racism, which emerged in the United States from legal studies in the 1970s and subsequently expanded into multiple disciplines. CRT conceives of race as a social and historical construct with no biological basis and understands racism not as an individual problem of prejudice, but as a persistent institutional order that organizes the unequal distribution of power, resources, and social recognition. Based on the foundational work of Derrick Bell and the concept of convergence of interests, the chapter reconstructs the historical, intellectual, and political background of CRT, including its link to the civil rights movement and its academic institutionalization. It also addresses the main epistemological debates in the field—such as the tension between essentialism and antiessentialism, situated knowledge, and the use of narratives—and analyzes its contributions to critical psychology, particularly in understanding everyday racism, microaggressions, and the ethical responsibility of the discipline in the face of contemporary structural racism.