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Nevilledog

(50,687 posts)
Mon Jul 5, 2021, 11:56 AM Jul 2021

The Predictable Backlash to Critical Race Theory: A Q&A With Kimberle Crenshaw




https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/critical-race-kimberle-crenshaw/

JON WIENER: We’re a little late talking about Critical Race Theory (CRT). In the past three and a half months, the Fox News Channel has talked about it nearly 1,300 times. It’s being banned from public schools and colleges in something like 13 Republican states. But what is critical race theory? And why is this happening now? The first thing you ever published on the topic was in the Harvard Law Review a long time ago—in 1988.

KIMBERLÉ CRENSHAW: “Race, Reform, and Retrenchment.” The basic point of that article was that wherever there is race reform, there’s inevitably retrenchment, and sometimes the retrenchment can be more powerful than the reform itself. And some of what we are experiencing right now is exactly that.

JW: It’s rare that a professor’s scholarly work gets banned in more than a dozen states. I guess that’s a measure of the power and significance of your writing. But I’m not sure I should say congratulations.

KC: I’m not sure if I would receive it, either! Of course the whole point of writing about ideas is for them to spread, but it’s an entirely different thing when the idea that you are writing about has been gentrified effectively by an incendiary opposition.

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The Predictable Backlash to Critical Race Theory: A Q&A With Kimberle Crenshaw (Original Post) Nevilledog Jul 2021 OP
Short, worthwhile read w/link to podcast. crickets Jul 2021 #1

crickets

(25,896 posts)
1. Short, worthwhile read w/link to podcast.
Mon Jul 5, 2021, 01:23 PM
Jul 2021
This is about a contemporary agenda controlling narratives of the past in order to limit what has been unfolding in this country for the past year.


Kimberlé Crenshaw is so on point. Bookmarking to catch the podcast later.
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