Article
The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same: Race, Education, and Critical Race Theory After 20 Years: An Appraisal
Peabody Journal of Education
(2017)
Abstract
"Since the 1995 publication of Gloria Ladson-Billings and William F. Tate's seminal article, “Toward a Critical Race Theory in Education,” considerable social and political change has taken place within the United States and abroad—the most significant sociopolitical occurrence being the 2008 presidential election and 2012 reelection of the first African American president of United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama. Obama's election was enthusiastically embraced by many in the mainstream news media, conservative pundits, and racial liberals as the onset of a “postracial” epoch in which race no longer served as a determinant in shaping the individual and collective life chances for people of color. At the same time, the Obama presidency and the postracial narrative ironically seemed to have magically transformed people of European ancestry (i.e., whites) into a minority population under siege, as illustrated by the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017..."
Disciplines
Publication Date
December, 2017
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/0161956X.2017.1403168
Citation Information
Jamel K. Donnor, Celia Rousseau Anderson and Andrienne D. Dixson. "The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same: Race, Education, and Critical Race Theory After 20 Years: An Appraisal" Peabody Journal of Education Vol. 93 Iss. 1 (2017) p. 1 - 4 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jamel-donnor/40/