Tag Archives: critical race theory
What the hysteria over critical race theory is really all about, by Fabiola Cineas
What critical race theory actually is. Watching the news or browsing social media, it would be easy to think that critical race theory is a complicated, controversial, or new idea.
Attacks on Professors Are Attacks on Democracy, by Benjamin Carter Hett
The fascist movements of the 20th century were notoriously anti-intellectual and anti-professor.
Henry A. Giroux: Jim Crow Politics Have Descended on Education
“How can education be enlisted to fight what the cultural theorist Mark Fisher once called neoliberalism’s most brutal weapon, “the slow cancellation of the future?”
Hedges and Giroux: The Age of Manufactured Ignorance
“The Red Scare, Giroux warns, is alive and well in America.”
The Problem is the Other CRT (Conservative Race Theory), by Tim Wise
“Rather than arguing detailed academic theory, we must answer the right-wing assault on anti-racism by demonstrating the real motives of those who have launched the attack on it.”
Critical Race Theory Debacle Signals the Collapse of the American Empire, by Danny Haiphong
“The debate over Critical Race Theory will not resolve the contradictions that ensure Black Americans make less than sixty cents for every white American dollar , the U.S. military receives trillions to bomb Black and brown people abroad, and racist New Cold War tropes continue to be recycled to justify policies…
Henry Giroux: Fighting back against the age of manufactured ignorance: Resistance is still possible
“The underlying message of CRT is to dismantle forms of structural racism in order to create a more fair and just society.”
“Banning instruction on ‘critical race theory’ has become the new McCarthyism.”
Noam Chomsky: Republicans Are Willing to Destroy Democracy to Retake Power
“The term “neoliberal proto-fascism” captures well both the features of the current party and the distinction from the fascism of the past. The commitment to the most brutal form of neoliberalism is apparent in the legislative record, crucially the subordination of the party to private capital, the inverse of classic fascism.”
Henry Giroux: The Plague of Historical Amnesia in the Age of Fascist Politics
“Historical amnesia also finds expression in the right-wing press and among media pundits such as Fox News commentators Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, whose addiction to lying exceeds the boundaries of reason and creates an echo chamber of misinformation that normalizes the unspeakable, if not the unthinkable.”
Matthew Rothchild> Banned in Tucson
Banned in Tucson By Matthew Rothschild, January 19, 2012 The Progressive What happened last week in Tucson was outrageous. The Tucson Unified School District, after voting to ban Mexican American Studies, went into the classrooms and took books away from young people, books that the state, in its hateful law, has deemed unacceptable. These […]
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