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🧵 on Gloria #LadsonBillings, the primary source for bringing #CRT into the field of education. You know, #CriticalRaceTheory that so many super honest & super smart people have repeatedly liked to claim doesn’t even exist outside of Law Schools. 1/19
GLB injected her “critical(Marxist)” socio-historical racial lens of #CRT into the education system in 1995, with her paper written alongside William Tate, & titled “Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education” & followed that up in 1998 with…2/
“Just What is Critical Race Theory, and What’s It Doing in a Nice Field Like Education?”Two works that “extend the intellectual contributions of legal scholars; Derrick Bell, Cheryl Harris, Lani Guinier, Kimberle Crenshaw, Patricia Williams, Linda Greene, Mari Matsuda…3/
Excited for Gloria Ladson-Billing's lecture #CriticalRaceTheory #CulturallyResponsivePedagogy #MHAnnualLecture19 
"We need to brag about our children - we forget that they live in a highly complex world that it's incredible that they achieve anything"
Culturally relevant pedagogy is just teaching. Gloria explores how we can use popular culture to educate young people. She argues that we have to teach young people not just to get a job, but to liberate and empower them.
