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White Lies: Racism, Education and Critical Race Theory
David Gillborn
- 264 pages
- English
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White Lies: Racism, Education and Critical Race Theory
David Gillborn
About This Book
Unpacking Critical Race Theory (CRT) and exploring why it has become a focus in politics across the US and the UK, White Lies uses CRT to expose the systemic racism that shapes education. It charts the coordinated campaigns â involving think tanks, mainstream media and politicians â that have tried to silence antiracism in the wake of George Floyd's murder and 'Black Lives Matter'.
Each chapter is devoted to exposing a key 'white lie' by examining the evidence that shows how the interests of white people continue to occupy centre stage and block movement towards a more equitable education for all. Gillborn establishes how the public debates, shaped by misinformation and 'white lies', sustain race inequity and portray antiracism as a threat to freedom and justice. Key controversies are dissected and debunked, including:
- the extensive and coordinated anti-CRT campaigns in the US and the UK;
- the use of racial gaslighting to undermine claims to social justice;
- how multiple forms of intimidation are used to silence antiracist teaching and protest;
- the inaccurate portrayal of the white working class as race victims; and
- how cruelty, in policy, aims to unify whites and demonize minorities.
By avoiding unnecessary jargon to make complex debates accessible to a wide audience, this book is ideal reading for anyone studying CRT or interested in the topic of contemporary educational equality.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Endorsement Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Exhibits
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Whiteness, Lies and Racist Oppression
- Part I The Current Race War
- Part II Distraction and Divergence
- Index