Critical Race Theory

[Brian Peacock]

e.g. how about a sample problematic lesson plan.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/292725438/lesson-plan-1-pdf

Of course, one's view of the material might depend on what one considers 'problematic'.

[Brian Peacock]

A Lesson on Critical Race Theory
Janel George

In September 2020, President Trump issued an executive order excluding from federal contracts any diversity and inclusion training interpreted as containing “Divisive Concepts,” “Race or Sex Stereotyping,” and “Race or Sex Scapegoating.” Among the content considered “divisive” is Critical Race Theory (CRT). In response, the African American Policy Forum, led by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, launched the #TruthBeTold campaign to expose the harm that the order poses. Reports indicate that over 300 diversity and inclusion trainings have been canceled as a result of the order. And over 120 civil rights organizations and allies signed a letter condemning the executive order. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the National Urban League (NUL), and the National Fair Housing Alliance filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the executive order violates the guarantees of free speech, equal protection, and due process. So, exactly what is CRT, why is it under attack, and what does it mean for the civil rights lawyer?

CRT is not a diversity and inclusion “training” but a practice of interrogating the role of race and racism in society that emerged in the legal academy and spread to other fields of scholarship. Crenshaw—who coined the term “CRT”—notes that CRT is not a noun, but a verb. It cannot be confined to a static and narrow definition but is considered to be an evolving and malleable practice. It critiques how the social construction of race and institutionalized racism perpetuate a racial caste system that relegates people of color to the bottom tiers. CRT also recognizes that race intersects with other identities, including sexuality, gender identity, and others. CRT recognizes that racism is not a bygone relic of the past. Instead, it acknowledges that the legacy of slavery, segregation, and the imposition of second-class citizenship on Black Americans and other people of color continue to permeate the social fabric of this nation.

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CRT does not define racism in the traditional manner as solely the consequence of discrete irrational bad acts perpetrated by individuals but is usually the unintended (but often foreseeable) consequence of choices. It exposes the ways that racism is often cloaked in terminology regarding “mainstream,” “normal,” or “traditional” values or “neutral” policies, principles, or practices. And, as scholar Tara Yosso asserts, CRT can be an approach used to theorize, examine, and challenge the ways which race and racism implicitly and explicitly impact social structures, practices, and discourses. CRT observes that scholarship that ignores race is not demonstrating “neutrality” but adherence to the existing racial hierarchy. For the civil rights lawyer, this can be a particularly powerful approach for examining race in society. Particularly because CRT has recently come under fire, understanding CRT and some of its primary tenets is vital for the civil rights lawyer who seeks to eradicate racial inequality in this country.

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CRT transcends a Black/white racial binary and recognizes that racism has impacted the experiences of various people of color, including Latinx, Native Americans, and Asian Americans. As a result, different branches, including LatCrit, TribalCrit, and AsianCRT have emerged from CRT. These different branches seek to examine specific experiences of oppression. CRT challenges white privilege and exposes deficit-informed research that ignores, and often omits, the scholarship of people of color. CRT began in the legal academy in the 1970s and grew in the 1980s and 1990s. It persists as a field of inquiry in the legal field and in other areas of scholarship. Mari Matsudi described CRT as the work of progressive legal scholars seeking to address the role of racism in the law and the work to eliminate it and other configurations of subordination.

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Foundational questions that underlie CRT and the law include: How does the law construct race?; How has the law protected racism and upheld racial hierarchies?; How does the law reproduce racial inequality?; and How can the law be used to dismantle race, racism, and racial inequality?

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https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj ... ce-theory/

A longish, but interesting and informative read. Well worth 20 mins of anyone's time.

[Sean Hayden]

e.g. how about a sample problematic lesson plan.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/292725438/lesson-plan-1-pdf

Of course, one's view of the material might depend on what one considers 'problematic'.

Do you know the grade level for that lesson plan?

[NineBerry]

e.g. how about a sample problematic lesson plan.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/292725438/lesson-plan-1-pdf

Of course, one's view of the material might depend on what one considers 'problematic'.

Do you know the grade level for that lesson plan?

Stalingrade.

[Brian Peacock]

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e.g. how about a sample problematic lesson plan.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/292725438/lesson-plan-1-pdf

Of course, one's view of the material might depend on what one considers 'problematic'.

Do you know the grade level for that lesson plan?

No. I just did a bit of Googling. Looking at it I reckon it's in the end of high school/begining of uni kind of area - pupils 16-20ish.

[Sean Hayden]

e.g. how about a sample problematic lesson plan.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/292725438/lesson-plan-1-pdf

Of course, one's view of the material might depend on what one considers 'problematic'.

Do you know the grade level for that lesson plan?

Stalingrade.

[Sean Hayden]

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e.g. how about a sample problematic lesson plan.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/292725438/lesson-plan-1-pdf

Of course, one's view of the material might depend on what one considers 'problematic'.

Do you know the grade level for that lesson plan?

No. I just did a bit of Googling. Looking at it I reckon it's in the end of hig school/begining of uni kind of area - pupils 16-20ish.

That was my first thought. At this age I assume it's less problematic. Universities can teach whatever they like.

I wouldn't want it presented to younger students, or only carefully by an exceptional teacher anyway.

[Joe]

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

A Lesson on Critical Race Theory
Janel George

In September 2020, President Trump issued an executive order excluding from federal contracts any diversity and inclusion training interpreted as containing “Divisive Concepts,” “Race or Sex Stereotyping,” and “Race or Sex Scapegoating.” Among the content considered “divisive” is Critical Race Theory (CRT). In response, the African American Policy Forum, led by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, launched the #TruthBeTold campaign to expose the harm that the order poses. Reports indicate that over 300 diversity and inclusion trainings have been canceled as a result of the order. And over 120 civil rights organizations and allies signed a letter condemning the executive order. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the National Urban League (NUL), and the National Fair Housing Alliance filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the executive order violates the guarantees of free speech, equal protection, and due process. So, exactly what is CRT, why is it under attack, and what does it mean for the civil rights lawyer?

CRT is not a diversity and inclusion “training” but a practice of interrogating the role of race and racism in society that emerged in the legal academy and spread to other fields of scholarship. Crenshaw—who coined the term “CRT”—notes that CRT is not a noun, but a verb. It cannot be confined to a static and narrow definition but is considered to be an evolving and malleable practice. It critiques how the social construction of race and institutionalized racism perpetuate a racial caste system that relegates people of color to the bottom tiers. CRT also recognizes that race intersects with other identities, including sexuality, gender identity, and others. CRT recognizes that racism is not a bygone relic of the past. Instead, it acknowledges that the legacy of slavery, segregation, and the imposition of second-class citizenship on Black Americans and other people of color continue to permeate the social fabric of this nation.

...

CRT does not define racism in the traditional manner as solely the consequence of discrete irrational bad acts perpetrated by individuals but is usually the unintended (but often foreseeable) consequence of choices. It exposes the ways that racism is often cloaked in terminology regarding “mainstream,” “normal,” or “traditional” values or “neutral” policies, principles, or practices. And, as scholar Tara Yosso asserts, CRT can be an approach used to theorize, examine, and challenge the ways which race and racism implicitly and explicitly impact social structures, practices, and discourses. CRT observes that scholarship that ignores race is not demonstrating “neutrality” but adherence to the existing racial hierarchy. For the civil rights lawyer, this can be a particularly powerful approach for examining race in society. Particularly because CRT has recently come under fire, understanding CRT and some of its primary tenets is vital for the civil rights lawyer who seeks to eradicate racial inequality in this country.

...

CRT transcends a Black/white racial binary and recognizes that racism has impacted the experiences of various people of color, including Latinx, Native Americans, and Asian Americans. As a result, different branches, including LatCrit, TribalCrit, and AsianCRT have emerged from CRT. These different branches seek to examine specific experiences of oppression. CRT challenges white privilege and exposes deficit-informed research that ignores, and often omits, the scholarship of people of color. CRT began in the legal academy in the 1970s and grew in the 1980s and 1990s. It persists as a field of inquiry in the legal field and in other areas of scholarship. Mari Matsudi described CRT as the work of progressive legal scholars seeking to address the role of racism in the law and the work to eliminate it and other configurations of subordination.

...

Foundational questions that underlie CRT and the law include: How does the law construct race?; How has the law protected racism and upheld racial hierarchies?; How does the law reproduce racial inequality?; and How can the law be used to dismantle race, racism, and racial inequality?

...

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj ... ce-theory/

A longish, but interesting and informative read. Well worth 20 mins of anyone's time.

So this part

CRT grew from Critical Legal Studies (CLS), which argued that the law was not objective or apolitical. CLS was a significant departure from earlier conceptions of the law (and other fields of scholarship) as objective, neutral, principled, and dissociated from social or political considerations. Like proponents of CLS, critical race theorists recognized that the law could be complicit in maintaining an unjust social order. Where critical race theorists departed from CLS was in the recognition of how race and racial inequality were reproduced through the law.

brought this rather famous passage from 1880 to mind:

The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed. The law embodies the story of a nation’s development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics. In order to know what it is, we must know what it has been, and what it tends to become. We must alternately consult history and existing theories of legislation. But the most difficult labor will be to understand the combination of the two into new products at every stage. The substance of the law at any given time pretty nearly corresponds, so far as it goes, with what is then understood to be convenient; but its form and machinery, and the degree to which it is able to work out desired results, depend very much upon its past.

I'm sure Oliver Wendell Holmes II was thinking much less about race than the legal thinkers of today, or at least no one would consider him particularly woke, and yet CRT echo's his notion.

[Joe]

I'll have the Moo Goo Gai Pan, fried dumplings, hot and sour soup, and a side of chicken feet.

[Brian Peacock]

[Seabass]

It's the vrot egg from which hatched Intolerant Wokeness.

Blame the racists. None of this shit would exist if the racists would just stop being racist.

[Seabass]

Without examples I'm going to assume our schools don't actually resemble a Black Hebrew Israelites meeting, or Seabass's living room.

I didn't talk about racism much, pre-Trump. For the darkies among us, watching 65% of white America turn fascist tends to cause a bit of discomfort, to put it mildly.

[Seabass]

Someone should inform Fucker that the history of the US makes Rwanda look like a fucking stroll in the park, and that it wasn't the people with dark skin doing the genociding and enslaving.

Tucker Carlson: Critical race theory will lead to the genocide of white Americans

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Pundit, after senator, after professor, after general: each one of them spewing race hate. Whiteness, white rage! Dressed up as some new academic theory. We certainly have the tape. We'll spare you, because you've seen it, it's everywhere. The question is, and this is the question that we should meditating on day in and day out: is how do we get out of this vortex, this cycle, before it's too late? How do we save this country before we become Rwanda?

video: https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/t ... -americans

[Sean Hayden]

Well, technically, shouldn't you point out instead the historical power imbalance? Regarding skin color and harm the shit is universal e.g. natives selling their peers into slavery.

Of course if you focus on power the shitheel has a point, overegged to hell of course, absurd even.

[Woodbutcher]

I still don't have the faintest idea what the CTR is. That shit is getting more and more complicated and nutty as people try to explain it. Fuck, it sounds like something explained by Trump.