Texas school district pulls books by acclaimed Black author amid critical race theory claims.
of seventh-grader Jordan Banks and how he navigates his worlds at home and at a prestigious private school where he's one of the few minority students.
"It is inappropriate instructional material," said parent Bonnie Anderson, who is white."The books don't come out and say we want white children to feel like oppressors but that is absolutely what they will do."Jerry Craft's graphic novel "New Kid."released a statement from Craft in response to the petition. The association said dissenters"claim the book teaches critical race theory and therefore should not be taught in schools.
In his statement, Craft said nothing will deter him from his goals of"helping kids become the kind of readers that I never was; letting kids see themselves on my pages; and showing kids of color as just regular kids." "As an African American boy who grew up in Washington Heights in New York City, I almost never saw kids like me in any of the books assigned to me in school," according to Craft's statement."Books aimed at kids like me seemed to deal only with history or misery."Critical race theory, the academic study of racism’s pervasive impact, is considered by some parents and conservative activists to be leftist indoctrination.
Educational material that focuses on the role race, and institutional racism, plays in everyday American life is crucial, said Darius Benton, who teaches communications at the University of Houston-Downtown.
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