#5SmartReads - September 3, 2021

Kate on Critical Race Theory, segregation, and how to have an Emotional Labor Day weekend

Today’s regular guest contributor is Dr. Kate R Slater! It’s great to have her back! Find other articles Dr. Kate has written here. Please check out the highlight saved on her instagram titled “Emotional Labor,” a call to action for Labor Day Weekend.

Critical Race Theory Might Actually Save Us (The Cut)

As a CRT scholar, the recent backlash over Critical Race Theory (and the willful, deliberate misunderstanding and weaponization of it) is purely maddening.

CRT as an academic theory has been demonized to undermine teaching that centers the voices and histories of BIPOC individuals - it's the most recent casualty of political culture wars. As Dr. Cooper (@professor_crunk) writes "Critical race theory is not an indoctrination... children deserve to be taught real, factual history, and to have good analytic frameworks for understanding how racism impacts all of our lives. CRT doesn't need defending. In fact, critical race theory is the sort of vital truth-telling that is necessary if Americ…