What Is Racial Literacy?

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🗓️ 23 May 2022

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 77 Critical Education Theory Series, Part 13 A common term of art in the current educational milieu is racial literacy. In fact, here is the giant and influential educational company Pollyanna, Inc., talking about how central racial literacy is (https://pollyannainc.org/k-8-curriculum/) to their K-8 education programs. What is racial literacy, though? As you will not be surprised to learn, it is the racial repackaging of Marxist education Theorist Paulo Freire's critical literacy model using Race Marxism (Critical Race Theory) in place of Critical Marxism (Critical Theory, or neo-Marxism). In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay explores racial literacy in the words of two of its own scholars, making clear how shoddy their so-called "research" really is, at bottom, and that, in fact, "racial literacy" means the priority of the Race Marxification of education, which merely takes Freire's Marxist education project (Critical Pedagogy) one step further. Join him to gain the confidence you need to understand this concept and push back against it when you see it in your kids' schools. Support New Discourses: paypal.me/newdiscourses newdiscourses.locals.com/support patreon.com/newdiscourses subscribestar.com/newdiscourses youtube.com/channel/UC9K5PLkj0N_b9JTPdSRwPkg/join Website: https://newdiscourses.com Follow: facebook.com/newdiscourses twitter.com/NewDiscourses instagram.com/newdiscourses https://newdiscourses.locals.com pinterest.com/newdiscourses linkedin.com/company/newdiscourses minds.com/newdiscourses reddit.com/r/NewDiscourses © 2022 New Discourses. All rights reserved.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, this is James Lindsay.
0:22.0	You are listening to another episode of the new Discourses podcast and we are discussing
0:27.3	in a huge sprawling series Critical Education Theory.
0:31.4	I am trying to dip in and out of the old literature.
0:34.0	I don't want to just Apollo free area you into the ground over and over and over again,
0:39.6	but we have got a few of those and you may recall, we have just done this chapter 6 of
0:45.8	Apollo free area here in the broader Critical Education Series podcast series as well as
0:51.5	on the new Discourses podcast that we are doing right now, kind of in order.
0:55.9	So if you haven't checked those out, you should, but before that, we did one talking
0:59.0	about the concept of kind of racial literacy in second grade classrooms, critical race
1:06.0	theory and second grade classrooms from a paper in 2006.
1:11.2	Yeah, 2006.
1:13.2	We called that episode, your kids go to Apollo free areas, Marxist schools, with the idea
1:19.4	that I was showing you there that Apollo free areas ideas, which we have been discussing,
1:25.2	in 2006, were already shaping, unambiguously shaping early childhood education, second
1:32.6	graders, seven year olds.
1:35.3	And then I went into those two episodes going through the sixth chapter, which is a work
1:39.6	course chapter of Apollo free areas, book the Politics of Education from 1985, wherein
1:44.6	I said that in the first of those two episodes, I lay out how what free area accomplished
1:50.8	with his work was to Marxify education to make education itself a Marxist theory.
1:56.4	And then in the second of those two episodes, I elaborate going through the second, the
2:00.0	harder, back half of chapter six of that book.
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