Today's Event (7pm ET/11am (Wed.) AET)!
"Critical Race Theory, Science, and Pseudoscience": Victor Ray and Sam Hoadley-Brill with Jana Bacevic
Event Time: 7pm ET/11am (Wed.) AET
Critical Race Theory, Science, and Pseudoscience
Victor Ray and Sam Hoadley-Brill with Jana Bacevic
Critical race theory (CRT) is an approach to racial scholarship born in law schools in the 1980s that operates from the premises of pervasive racial inequality and a social constructionist (i.e. anti-essentialist) conception of race; challenges the idea that the superficially colorblind nature of the law means the law is race-neutral; and seeks to explain how landmark civil rights legislation of the 1960s failed to deliver on its promises of equality for the racial minorities it was supposed to uplift.
Amongst other things, critics of CRT have argued have that it is an anti-scientific research program, rejecting core tenets of science, such as universality and objectivity. But are these claims correct? Furthermore, to what extent have pseudoscientific claims played an instrumental role in fomenting the increasing backlash against CRT? Join CRT scholars Victor Ray and Sam Hoadley-Brill to find out more! You can register for this event here.