Scholars in education and sociology caught wind of the theory and adopted it soon thereafter, Peller said. But the way CRT is being discussed now in common dialogue is problematic, Coates said.

It's probably safe to say that most members of the public had never heard of critical race theory before the fall of 2020, when then-U.S. President Donald Trump launched a rhetorical war on it ...

Whatever one thinks of critical race theory, the state’s interference limits the freedom of professors who are experts in their fields to decide what to teach their students.

And these tenets were so useful they’ve been adopted by scholars of education, public policy, and sociology. Critical race theory’s main principles—that race is a social construction and ...

The Graduate Certificate in Critical Theory offers students a background in the philosophical foundations of critical theory. Drawing on disciplines such as philosophy, psychoanalysis, Marxism, ...

UCF students who wanted to learn about critical race theory this past fall had few options. Not only had the three sociology courses been canceled, but an anthropology course on racism was nixed ...

Critical race theory was first developed in the 1970s and 1980s by legal scholars looking to understand why racial ... a sociology professor at the University of Maryland and senior ...

Critical race theory has been “thrust into the center of a national debate,” according to Rosalind Chou, associate professor of sociology, who teaches SOC 1827O: “Critical Race Theory.” Historically, ...