[2] The anti-racist curriculum is part of a wider social constructivist movement in the various societies of the Western World, where many scientific worldviews are seen as manifestations of Western cultures who enjoy a privileged position over societies from the "Global South",[3] along with claiming that there is a sociocultural aspect to education, i.e. that the studies of these subjects in Western societies have usually exhibited racial and cultural bias,[4] and that they focus too much on "dead white men", especially in mathematics.
[5][note 1] The anti-bias curriculum is seen by its proponents as a catalyst in the critical analysis of various social conditions.
[1] Margaret Thatcher, in a speech made during the Conservative Party Conference of 1987, referred to "hard left education authorities and extremist teachers" teaching "anti-racist mathematics—whatever that may be.
"[6][7] and later on in 2005, Fox News carried a story detailing "The 'anti-racist education' program in place at Newton Public Schools.
[12] Other critics, such as University of Tennessee professor J. Amos Hatch, have claimed that some anti-bias curricula can be construed as actively or passively adopting an anti-European/western racial bias, seeking to minimize contributions of ethnic Europeans in favor of other ethnic groups.