Note the following course at Peabody college next semester, which may be of interest to many graduate students.
EDUC 7500; Professor Ebony McGee
Critical Race Theory: Race and Racism in Education
Critical Race Theory (CRT) was originally conceptualized in legal scholarship as discourse to identify racism as endemic to daily life in the United States. The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to the original tenants of CRT in legal scholarship and education as a means to interpret/interrogate public education. Incorporating legal, historical, policy analysis and sociological approaches, the attempt of this class is to develop analysis and praxis through CRT in the examination of educational concerns. This class seeks to place CRT in the realm of education for social justice and to give participants the opportunity to engage CRT as an introductory measure towards transformative education. In short, the aim is to use CRT as an analytical framework that provides race-based epistemological, methodological, and pedagogical approaches to the study of everyday inequalities in education.