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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.
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