Critical Race Theory (CRT) is an academic and legal movement that originated in the 1970s. Built on the identarian framework of Marxism, it was formulated to examine and critique the ways in which America’s institutions ostensibly uphold and perpetuate racism and oppression. It operates under the assumption that America is structurally racist. Its theorists claim that any and all forward progress America has made in overcoming our country’s history of racism has been to benefit white America and has actually detracted from real racial progress. In practice, it is highly ideologically loaded, and teaches students that the world is reducible down to racial conflict, that white people are inherently oppressors, and black people are inherently oppressed.