Yale Law Journal to defend ‘anti-racist indoctrination’ in upcoming issue
“I write in defense of indoctrination: anti-racist indoctrination,” Clark said.
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“I write in defense of indoctrination: anti-racist indoctrination,” Clark said.
The Yale Law Journal has called upon a self-professed critical race theorist to write a feature article opposing the anti-CRT movement.
As the debate surrounding the teaching of critical race theory in schools rages on, the Yale Law Journal has decided to highlight opposition to the anti-CRT movement.
The journal is enlisting the help of self-professed critical race theorist and UCLA law professor LaToya Baldwin Clark, who is set to write a feature article pushing back against those who don't want critical race theory taught in schools.
On Tuesday, Clark revealed the news in a lengthy Twitter thread.
I am so happy to share that the @YaleLJournal solicited from me and is going to publish a Feature Article written by...me! It will introduce the law review world to the @CRSatUCLA #CRT Forward Tracking Project, which tracks and analyzes the anti-CRT efforts at all levels of gov.
— LaToya Baldwin Clark | DrMamaEsq (@DrMamaEsq)
"I am so happy to share that the @YaleLJournal solicited from me," Clark wrote, "and is going to publish a Feature Article written by...me!"
Clark explained that the article "will introduce the law review world to the @CRSatUCLA #CRT Forward Tracking Project, which tracks and analyzes the anti-CRT efforts art all levels of government."
I write in defense of indoctrination: anti-racist indoctrination. Accordingly, the response to "indoctrination" is not to insist that CRT is not in schools. Instead, CRT is needed in schools to resist the formal colorblindness inherent in the anti-CRT movement.
— LaToya Baldwin Clark | DrMamaEsq (@DrMamaEsq)
Clark went on to explain that she thinks the anti-CRT movement "highlights exactly why we NEED CRT in schools," claiming that "schools already indoctrinate into White supremacy."
"I write in defense of indoctrination: anti-racist indoctrination," Clark continued, arguing that the response to people opposing critical race theory should not be to insist that it is not taught, but to teach it even more.
She called on people to "resist the formal colorblindness inherent in the anti-CRT movement," suggesting that race should take centre-stage in education.
Clark is currently an Assistant Professor of Law at UCLA Law School, and has had work published by the Virginia Law Review, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Sociological Inquiry, The Modern American, and Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education.
Much of her work focuses on social justice issues.
It means the world to me to have this opportunity. I didn't consider myself a critical race theorist until I got to @UCLA_Law. The mentorship of my senior colleagues -- top theorists committed to anti-racism -- has made me in a few short years a scholar that I am proud of.
— LaToya Baldwin Clark | DrMamaEsq (@DrMamaEsq)
Clark noted, however, that she didn't consider herself a critical race theorist before she got to UCLA, attributing her newfound views to the mentorship of her senior colleagues.
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