From the targeting of Critical Race Theory, Black Studies and other key frameworks, the dismantling of the Department of Education and the effective blackmailing of universities across the country, there is a generational attempt to remake the entire landscape of American education. By attacking education, history, and memory, authoritarians aim to create a mythic past in order to demolish the possibility of a multiracial democracy. A panel featuring Jason Stanley (Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto) and Randi Weingarten (President of the American Federation of Teachers) moderated by Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law Kimberlé Crenshaw (Director of the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy; Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum), this engaging conversation will help make sense of the crisis in democracy and why the assault on public education, universities and educators aims to rewrite the past to control the future.
Open house with refreshments from 6 to 6:30pm, the panel will be from 6:30 to 7:30pm followed by a book signing: Jason Stanley's Erasing History, Randi Wiengarten's Why Fascists Fear Teachers and Kimberle Crenshaw's Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement.
Please register here.