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New Study Reveals the Anti-CRT Agenda is Really about Denying Racism and Revising History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, these concepts, while not illustrative of CRT, are fundamental facts about racism in the United States. Further, the manner in which conservative media embraces the study gives a compelling glimpse at anti-CRT proponents’ operational definition of CRT. Dr. Ivory A. However, this simply is not true.

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Debunking U.S. History

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history, illustrate this interpretive divide in its starkest form. As Lepore points out, there’s nothing in the report about the pandemic, the lockdowns, the racial justice protests or deepening distrust of “educated national élite of politicians, journalists and academics.” Kruse and Julian E.

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Can Art History Be Taught Without Someone Becoming Angry?

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In art history classes, more than one exasperated student has screamed at me, “It’s just a chair. ” All these responses and more have made me consider the question, “Can art be experienced or art history taught without someone becoming angry?” A chair isn’t art!” And vice versa.

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Why We Must Teach African American Studies: A Call to Action

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The governor has even promoted the idea that teaching about anti-Black racism in U.S. history makes white children feel “discomfort, guilt, anguish, and psychological distress ,” without any consideration of Black students’ feelings of isolation and unimportance. There is a vast movement of white nationalism in the U.S.

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Panelists Discuss Antisemitism on College Campuses and Responsibilities of University Trustees

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In a number of states in our country, there has been excessive political intrusion by public trustees into the work of universities, attempts to prescribe what books cannot be taught in courses, to insist on particular versions of American history,” he said. “So, So, it is not as simple as saying trustees need to assert themselves.

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Engaging in Outreach Efforts & Meaningful Community Building

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As a MLIS student at San Jose State University (SJSU), I often read about the importance of promoting library services through outreach efforts. With fierce competition for funding and more people assuming everything offered by a library can be found online, libraries are feeling the pressure to blow their own horn (Hallmark et al.,

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Pathways to Racial Democracy in America

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Our nation must choose one of two alternative futures. Fred Pearce writes about the paradox of America’s large cities. Board of Education , but it also represents a new definition of public schools in the U.S. This new definition cannot be the last chapter of our journey to become the world’s first truly multiracial democracy.

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