TY - JOUR AU - Uma Mazyck Jayakumar PY - 2022 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag JF - PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY IN HIGHER EDUCATION IS - 3 VL - 4 SN - 2578-5761 TI - Introduction: CRT in Higher Education: Confronting the “Boogeyman” Bans, Censorship, and Attacks on Racial Justice DO - 10.3726/ptihe.032022.0001 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1307909 N2 - It took only a year after 2020’s racial justice uprisings for legislatures in half the states to attempt to ban teaching about systemic racism in US public schools, colleges, and universities. The boilerplate legislation disallows the teaching of “divisive concepts,” including the reality that systemic racism benefits white people. In what Patricia Williams calls “definitional theft,” ER -