Probably true before the hullabaloo, but the Streisand effect means that for students in the junior and senior classes (and a bit in the freshman classes as well) I have to teach a bit of it so they understand that what’s going on in the political sphere is not related to the reality of how the tendrils of actual CRT inform how we understand things like the growing ideas about race in the modern sense of the word, and how things like developing ideas of what “race” means came to inform any of a number of things going on in Colonial America and the Atlantic World.
So, of course, the irony is that I now teach a bit of CRT, when I never had to before.
