Critical Race Theory is consuming conservative America. The mounting attacks on a once-obscure legal theory are upending public schooling, legislating censorship, driving elections, and cleaving communities.

In this much-needed response, renowned scholar David Theo Goldberg cuts to the heart of the claims expressed in these attacks. He punctures the demonization of Critical Race Theory, uncovering who is orchestrating it, funding the assault, and eagerly distributing the message. The book richly illustrates the enduring nature of structural racism, even as a conservative insistence on colorblindness serves to silence the possibility of doing anything about it. Crucially, Goldberg exposes the political aims and effects of the vitriolic attacks. The upshot of CRTs targeting, he argues, has been to unleash racisms anew and to stymie any attempt to fight them, all with the aim of protecting white minority rule.

David Theo Goldberg is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Comparative Literature, and Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine.

Preface

1. Whats Going On?

PART I: PRINCIPLES AND PRINCIPALS

2. The Headliners

3. Critical Race Theory

PART II: FABRICATIONS

4. A Method of Misreading

5. Structural Racism?

6. The Gospel of Colorblindness

7. Fictive Histories

8. Sounds of Silencing
PART III: THE POLITICS OF CRT

9. Deregulating Racism

10. Executing Critical Race Theory