Critical Race Theory

Report: Latest Academic Freedom Index Sees Global Declines
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June 28, 2023

Report: Latest Academic Freedom Index Sees Global Declines

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‘People Are Going to Seek the Things That Are Kept From Them’: An Interview with Danian Darrell Jerry
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June 19, 2023

‘People Are Going to Seek the Things That Are Kept From Them’: An Interview with Danian Darrell Jerry

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Attacking Wicked Problems with Hip-Hop: An Interview with Walter Greason
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May 25, 2023

Attacking Wicked Problems with Hip-Hop: An Interview with Walter Greason

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Database Tracks Attempts To Ban Critical Race Theory
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April 12, 2023

Database Tracks Attempts To Ban Critical Race Theory

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American Sociological Association Statement, Guidebook Back Teaching about Race and Racism

American Sociological Association Statement, Guidebook Back Teaching about Race and Racism

The American Sociological Association recently released a statement “urg[ing] public officials, educators, and lawmakers to avoid suppressing knowledge, violating academic and free speech, and prohibiting scholars and teachers from discussing and teaching about the roles of race and racism in society.

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The Impact of Book Bans on Higher Education

The Impact of Book Bans on Higher Education

While book bans themselves remain sadly frequent across the United States, increasingly those efforts have zeroed in on campuses.

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Making Sense of Religion in America Through Critical Race Theory

Making Sense of Religion in America Through Critical Race Theory

As a scholar of religious studies, I frequently use critical race theory as a tool to better understand how religion operates in American society. While critical race theorists initially focused on how race has been embedded in our legal system, the theory can also help us think about how race is entrenched in religious institutions.

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Brown Lecture: Lori Patton Davis on Educational Equity

Brown Lecture: Lori Patton Davis on Educational Equity

Lecturer Lori Patton Davis of The Ohio State University asks: Why are we still climbing the hill of educational equity 67 years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education?

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A Quick Primer on Critical Race Theory

A Quick Primer on Critical Race Theory

The development of critical race theory by legal scholars such as Derrick Bell and Kimberle Crenshaw was largely a response to the slow legal progress and setbacks faced by African Americans from the end of the Civil War, in 1865, through the end of the civil rights era, in 1968.

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Questioning the Narrative of the Majority-Minority Society

Questioning the Narrative of the Majority-Minority Society

“The argument of this book,” writes Richard Alba, “is not that whites will retain a numerical majority status, although I do not rule out such a possibility, but rather that mainstream expansion, which brings about a melding involving many whites, non-whites, and Hispanics, holds out the prospect of a new kind of societal majority.”

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Why is Interdisciplinary Research on Race and Racism So Important?

Why is Interdisciplinary Research on Race and Racism So Important?

Intersectional problems require interdisciplinary thinking. So when we think about race and racism, it might be worth asking – what are we not seeing by limiting ourselves to a single discipline?

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