Glenn Loury
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Charles Love & Donique Rolle – Teaching Black History without CRT
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Charles Love & Donique Rolle – Teaching Black History without CRT

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My guests this week, Charles Love and Donique Rolle, turn down the temperature on the sometimes overheated debate about race and education. Charles is a passionate advocate for the power of education to help young black people achieve a successful and productive life—as he says, it’s no coincidence that most African Americans with college degrees are doing pretty well. Donique teaches African American history at a Florida public high school, and she’s found not only that she can do so quite effectively without recourse to critical race theory, but that she rarely gets pushback from parents and students about her approach.

Both Charles and Donique seem to agree: Racism (“systemic” or otherwise) is not a major obstacle to black students’ success; teaching them that it is only encourages them to disregard their own abilities and agency. I ask them about larger political issues at play in debates about teaching black history. Is Florida’s Stop WOKE Act as repressive as its opponents make it sound? What is the relationship, if any, between LGBT history and black history? Are traditional public schools the best way to educate our young people? Donique’s answer may surprise you.

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0:00 Charles’s argument for emphasizing education over systemic racism

5:21 Donique: Teaching African American history doesn’t require critical race theory

15:36 Charles: We are the 97%!

18:48 How Donique balances oppression and triumph in black history

24:02 What does Florida’s Stop WOKE Act actually say?

33:30 What’s wrong with integrating LGBT history and black history?

44:19 Sexuality’s ever-shifting Overton window

49:40 Why Donique, a public school teacher, advocates for homeschooling

54:30 Expanding the canon of historic black figures

Recorded April 10, 2023


Links and Readings

Charles’s podcast, Cut the Bull

Seeking Educational Excellence

The Woodson Center’s 1776 Unites project

Putting the Pieces Together

Ian Rowe’s book, Agency: The Four Point Plan (F.R.E.E.) for ALL Children to Overcome the Victimhood Narrative and Discover Their Pathway to Power


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Glenn Loury
The Glenn Show
Race, inequality, and economics in the US and throughout the world from Glenn Loury, Professor of Economics at Brown University and Paulson Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute