Race Without Racism: Religious School Curricula and the Race-Neutral Legacy of <em> Brown</em>

Current conversations about race and equity curricula in primary and secondary education exclude examining religious curricula because of their private classification. Yet, this omission prevents us from exploring how religious curricula might mirror the legal transformation of Brown’s racial equality legacy to constitutional race neutrality. This Article brings religious curricula into these conversations by specifically linking the Court’s race-neutral transformation of Brown to the way religious curricula frame discussions about race without racism. Throughout the Article, I argue that the Court’s transformation of Brown is not just a top-down legal framework but also a bottom-up educational ideology. By making this connection, this Article suggests that religious schools are relevant to the legacy of Brown in the present as well as the past. This abstract has been taken from the author's introduction.