Michelle Bellino curates a new series of essays focused on “anti-CRT” rhetoric and policy for NCID
Authors explore the origins, strategies, and impact of efforts to prevent discussions of race and racism in public spheres.
Associate Professor Michelle Bellino and Manoucheka Celeste, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, have curated a series of essays for the National Center for Institutional Diversity titled “Miseducating the Public: Anti-CRT Movement Rhetoric, Policy, and Impact.”
In an introduction to the series, Bellino and Celeste write that actions such as censorship, book-banning, and a rise in legislation to prohibit discussions of race and racism, as well as gender and sexuality in educational spaces, have had chilling effects in K-12 schools and higher educational institutions.
“Restrictions and censorship in K-12 schools and institutions of higher education are authoritarian strategies that threaten democratic freedom and undermine the civic mission of democratic education. Schools should aim to teach about democracy, for democracy, and through democratic means,” write Bellino and Celeste.
Writing from institutions around the country, authors in the series collectively explore the particularities of the recent escalation in legislative efforts to control, conflate, distort, and silence diversity education and diverse populations.
