![]() ![]() history is being diversified, and that is creating fear, particularly among white people. Now we are living in a time where the voices of people of color are being lifted up, and tragic events like George Floyd's death one year ago and violence against members of the Asian panethnic community prove that problems remain. However, traditionally school curriculums have taken a Eurocentric approach. ![]() Since the onset of teaching about American history, teachers have been teaching about forms of systemic racial discrimination and oppression, including slavery. Why are there proposals to ban critical race theory in schools?Īs of mid-May, legislation to outlaw CRT in schools has passed in Idaho, Iowa, Oklahoma and Tennessee and have been proposed in various other statehouses. Underlying this is the premise that racism is endemic to American society and that white supremacist ideals and practices should be dismantled. It’s a practice or approach that provides language and a lens for examining racism at institutional and structural levels. Teaching young people about race and racism is not synonymous with teaching them critical race theory. Critical race theory is not an ideology or a political orientation that assumes white people are bad it assumes white supremacy is bad in all of its forms. CRT dismisses the idea that racism stems from acts of individuals but rather rooted in a system of oppression based on socially constructed racial hierarchy where white people reap material benefits over people of color resulting from misuse of power. Dorinda Carter Andrews, professor and chairperson, Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University’s College of Education.Ĭritical race theory, or CRT, is a framework developed in the 1970s by legal scholars that argues white supremacy maintains power through the law and other legal systems. ![]()
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