Our Silence Will Not Protect Us . . . and Neither Will J. Edgar Hoover: Reclaiming Critical Race Theory under the New McCarthyism

Authors

Christina Hsu Accomando, Cal Poly HumboldtFollow
Kristin J. Anderson, University of Houston, DowntownFollow

Abstract

The right-wing attack against critical race theory is the latest manufactured panic designed to whip up supporters of a party beholden to Donald Trump. Since late 2020, hundreds of measures have been introduced across the U.S. to ban antiracism education, critical race theory, the 1619 Project, and any understanding of racism as systemic and embedded in U.S. history and law. While an understandable reaction of educators is to declare that they are not teaching critical race theory, our position is to reclaim critical race theory for the powerful lens it offers in understanding the history of the U.S., the protracted role racism has played in our society, and strategies for envisioning a nation not based on racial hierarchy.

Recommended Citation

Accomando, Christina Hsu, and Kristin Anderson. 2022. "Our Silence Will Not Protect Us . . . and Neither Will J. Edgar Hoover: Reclaiming Critical Race Theory under the New McCarthyism." Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 1 (44): DOI: https://doi.org/10.55671/0160-4341.1162