critical race theory

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/18/2021
  

  Heating Up Culture Wars, France to Scour Universities for Ideas That ‘Corrupt Society’

  France's minister of higher education has pledged to investigate "Islamo-leftism" as a corrupting influence on society allegedly promoted by French university scholars. 

• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/21/2021
  

  Emmanuel Macron’s Socially Constructed Bogeymen

  by Daniel W. Drezner

  What, exactly, "Islamo-leftism" is, and what relationship it could possibly have to American academic theories, are two big questions left unanswered by the French President's attacks on academic ideas. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/9/2021
  

  France’s New Public Enemy: America’s Woke Left

  A body of American critical theory about the nexus of difference and power has proved threatening to a French intellectual elite that is historically invested in the nation's formally color-blind republican traditions even as ethnic and religious diversity exposes the gaps in those traditions. 

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• SOURCE: The Way of Improvement
  12/21/2020
  

  Will the Debate over Critical Race Theory Divide the Southern Baptist Convention?

  by John Fea

  The Southern Baptist Convention faces a split over some leaders' insistence that the academic theories of intersectionality and critical race theory are contrary to scripture. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  10/15/2020
  

  The Right's War on Universities

  by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

  "From the fascist years in Europe, nearly a century ago, to our own times, right-wing leaders have accused universities of being incubators of left-wing ideologies and sought to mold them in the image of their own propaganda, policy, and policing aims."

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• SOURCE: American Historical Association
  10/13/2020
  

  AHA Urges Retraction of Executive Order Prohibiting the Inclusion of “Divisive Concepts” in Employee Training Sessions

  In response to the president’s recent executive order prohibiting the inclusion of “divisive concepts” in employee training sessions, the AHA has issued a statement urging the retraction of the order because it is “neither necessary nor useful.”

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• 10/11/2020
  

  "Provided I Can Fuse on Ground Which I Think is Right": A Lincolnian View of the White House History Conference

  by Allen C. Guelzo

  "The fact that Americans have not always lived up fully to that Enlightenment universalism, or that ethnicity has often gotten bloodily in the way of it, merely shows that we are human, not that it is wrong."

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• SOURCE: Education Week
  10/5/2020
  

  No, Critical Race Theory Isn't 'Anti-American'

  by David E. DeMatthews and Terri N. Watson

  Critical race theory, which presupposes that racism is embedded within society and institutions, is not propaganda or anti-American; it is a toolkit for examining and addressing racism and other forms of marginalization.

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• SOURCE: Association of University Presses
  10/8/2020
  

  AUPresses Statement on US Executive Order on Combatting Race and Sex Stereotyping

  The international association of scholarly publishers calls the Trump adminstration's attacks on critical race theory and antiracism training a "chilling and frankly un-American" attack on intellectual inquiry.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/2/2020
  

  Trump Calls Critical Race Theory ‘Un-American.’ Let’s Review

  by Victor Ray

  "Ironically, Trump’s most recent executive order banning racial sensitivity training confirms critical race theory’s central point: Racism is embedded in the law."

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• SOURCE: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
  9/6/2020
  

  Trump and Critical Race Theory: What is Really Going On?

  by John Fea

  Trump and his followers want open discourse, debate, and the free exchange of ideas, but only with those ideas that they find agreeable.