The Hidden Agenda in GOP Attacks on Critical Race Theory

July 12, 2021

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) and other hard-line conservative members of Congress stand before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Capitol at an event denouncing critical race theory. In this Berkeley News interview, Khiara Bridges, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Ethnographic Research and Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, discusses how right-wing media have promoted a distorted version of critical race theory in order to undermine increasing awareness of systemic racism. The right attacks critical race theory to draw attention away from the detrimental impacts of systemic racism, "but part of the point of these attacks is to neutralize and delegtimize powerful critiques of American life."

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