![]() In theory, this shift is supposed to enable debates that avoid using “racist” as a personal accusation - since the point is that a culture can sustain persistent racial inequalities even if most white people aren’t bigoted or biased. One change involves increasingly familiar terms like “structural” and “systemic” racism, and the attempt to teach about race in a way that emphasizes not just explicitly racist laws and attitudes, but also how America’s racist past still influences inequalities today. It’s probably the more intense debate, driving both progressive zeal and conservative backlash.Īgain, I want to start with what the new progressivism is interested in changing. In this column I will try to describe the part of the controversy that concerns how we teach about racism today. In my last column I tried to describe part of the current controversy over race and K-12 education - the part that turns on whether it’s possible to tell a fuller historical story about slavery and segregation while also retaining a broadly patriotic understanding of America’s founding and development.
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