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[https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero](https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero)  \nRacial Truth-Telling in Dual Enrollment: Exploring Organizational Constraints and Possibilities in the Anti-CRT Era  \nJulia C. Duncheon  \nUniversity of Washington  \nSuneal Kolluri  \nUniversity of California, Riverside  \nDustin Hornbeck  \nUniversity of Memphis  \nK–12 teachers have become targets of political censorship in many states, with anti-CRT laws designed to eliminate racial truth-telling, or curricular content related to race and racism. Higher education has been targeted as well, most recently with anti-DEI initiatives, but college professors generally retain more curricular autonomy than their high school counterparts. As such, dual enrollment (DE)—college coursework delivered to high school students through a partnering postsecondary institution—may provide an avenue for students to learn about race and racism. Through the lens of racialized organizations, this study uses case study methodology to explore how a community college in Texas constrains or enables racial truth-telling in its DE courses. The findings show how the college’s ostensibly race-neutral response to K–12 curricular censorship placed the burden to defend racial truth-telling on individual DE faculty, with implications for their ability to do it. The paper closes with recommendations for policy and practice.  \nKeywords: community colleges, high schools, race, teacher context, organization theory/change, case studies, qualitative research, dual enrollment, racialized organizations  \nI mean you’re talking about the area of the world where they just banned talking about Critical Race Theory in the high schools, right? So, you’re talking about a college professor taking on things like politics or gun control or [race . . . in](race . . . in) an atmosphere where parents are used to . . . complaining about the instructor and something happens.  \n– Sable, Dean of Social Sciences  \nI was terrified about that Critical Race Theory thing. I’m about to goin and teach British Lit and teach imperialism and colonialism [to high school students], and I’m like,“Well, does it [the anti-CRT law] apply to us [dual enrollment instructors]?”  \n– Neema, English Instructor  \nI say [to my students],“This [dual enrollment] classroom—eventhough it’s on your high school—this is a little piece of [the community college] . I can talk about things that would get your other teachers fired.”  \n– George, Sociology Instructor  \nPublic schools and colleges have become primary targets of political censorship, with an emphasis on teaching about race and racism, or what Johnson (2024) called “racial truthtelling.” As of December 2024, a total of 862 anti-Critical Race Theory (CRT) measures had been introduced at the local, state, and federal levels, and 23 states had adopted educational gag orders (e.g., legislation, executive orders) that restrict race-related curriculum and teaching (Alexander et al., 2024) . Teachers in these states face consequences if they teach about historical or current racism in ways deemed inappropriate by school administrators, school boards, and/ or state lawmakers (Jayakumar & Kohli, 2023) . These educational gag orders undermine teachers’ ability to teach their content and, by extension, students’ capacity to learn about the society in which they live (Koyama, 2024) .  \nHigher education has come under attack as well, with more than 30 bills across the country—and 10 already on the  \nCreative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons  \nAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License ([https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)) which ","cbCaipn7vlloPtvN","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipn7vlloPtvN","pdf",520713,18,"English","# Racial Truth-Telling in Dual Enrollment\n## Political censorship and anti-CRT measures\n## Educational gag orders and teaching constraints\n## Dual enrollment as an instructional bridge\n## Case study context and methodology\n## Organizational constraints, faculty burden, and implications\n## Policy and practice recommendations","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the study address in anti-CRT contexts?\",\"answer\":\"It addresses how political censorship and anti-CRT measures restrict racial truth-telling and race-related curriculum, especially as teachers and faculty face intimidation or constraints.\"},{\"question\":\"Why focus on dual enrollment (DE)?\",\"answer\":\"DE enrolls high school students in college coursework through a partnering institution, potentially offering a route for learning about race and racism while bridging K–12 and higher education systems.\"},{\"question\":\"What key finding describes how racial truth-telling is handled organizationally?\",\"answer\":\"The college’s ostensibly race-neutral response placed the burden of defending racial truth-telling on individual DE faculty, affecting their ability to do so.\"}]","Racial Truth-Telling in Dual Enrollment: Exploring Organizational Constraints and Possibilities in the Anti-CRT Era | PDF",1792069491,45]