{"id":9763,"date":"2022-02-22T15:29:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T15:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2022\/02\/22\/thomas-answers-questions-about-critical-race-theory\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:46:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:46:23","slug":"thomas-answers-questions-about-critical-race-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/thomas-answers-questions-about-critical-race-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas answers questions about critical race theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With multiple bills in the South Carolina legislature aimed at critical race theory, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/what-is-critical-race-theory\/video_85c11a3c-372e-5123-b242-8a89ccd608ce.html?block_id=996030\">Fox Carolina<\/a> turned to Paul Thomas, professor of education, to explain what the term means. Thomas explained that critical race theory is &#8220;a lens that scholars use to examine race problems.&#8221; The concept has been around since the 1970s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With multiple bills in the South Carolina legislature aimed at critical race theory, Fox Carolina turned to Paul Thomas, professor of education, to explain what the term means. Thomas explained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":9764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28,6],"tags":[902,450],"class_list":["post-9763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-education","category-in-the-news","tag-critical-race-theory","tag-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}