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In this chapter, I address the relatively recent arrival of CRT in educational theorizing in the United Kingdom. In so doing, I focus on the latest book by influential UK ‘race’ and education theorist David Gillborn in the belief that the growing body of work by Gillborn in the field of CRT is highly likely to consolidate its presence in the United Kingdom. Specifically, I critically discuss Gillborn’s views on Marxists; on Marx and slavery; on Marx and ‘species essence’; on ‘White powerholders’; on racist inequalities in the UK education system; on education policy; on ability; on institutional racism; on ‘model minorities’; on whiteness and free speech; on conspiracy; and on ‘struggling where we are’ against ‘the powers that be’.
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An exception might be ‘new multicultural education’ or ‘radical multicultural education’ as advocated, for example, by Mal Leicester (e.g., Leicester, 1992a). Leicester challenged antiracism on a number of grounds from a ‘[L]eft liberal’ perspective, arguing that multicultural and antiracist education could be synthesized (Leicester, 1992b, p. 265). At the time I argued (e.g., Cole, 1992a) that such a synthesis, as advocated by Leicester, was not possible, primarily because her approach seemed to rely on white teachers teaching ‘new multicultural’ education, and would therefore be most likely to perpetuate stereotypes (e.g., Cole, 1992a, p. 247; for detailed discussions on these differing approaches, including an interchange of views, see Leicester, 1992a; Cole, 1992a; Leicester, 1992b; Cole, 1992b). I now believe, given modern ICT facilities, that antiracist multicultural education is possible (see chapter 8 of this volume).
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Cole, M. (2009). CRT Comes to the United Kingdom: A Critical Analysis of David Gillborn’s Racism and Education. In: Critical Race Theory and Education. Marxism and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230620117_6
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