Is there an uncontroversial way to teach America’s racist history?
By
Sean Illing
Vox
13min
A historian on the unavoidable discomfort around anti-racist education.
If you follow politics at all, you’ve likely encountered phrases and terms such as “critical race theory” or “anti-racism” recently.
There’s a debate raging over the history and legacy of American racism and how to teach it in schools. The current iteration of this debate (and there have been many) stretches back to 2019, when the New York Times publishedthe 1619 Project, but it evolved into a kind of moral panic in the post-Trump universe, in part because it’s great fodder forright-wing media.
The hysteria over critical race theory, or CRT, has now spilled beyond the confines of Twitter and Fox News. As I exploredback in March, conservative state legislatures across the country are seeking to ban CRT from being taught in public schools.
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