Legislation Watch: The Right’s Attack on Critical Race Theory

GOP state lawmakers have introduced more than three dozen bills and resolutions that would ban critical race theory or other 'divisive concepts', and promote so-called 'patriotic education.'

Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Teddy Wilson)

Critical race theory, an academic framework for the analysis of the intersection of the legal system and systemic racism, is the latest right-wing rhetorical cudgel being used by Republican state lawmakers as a pretext for introducing legislative proposals that undermine the teaching of Ameri…