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OP-ED | Anti-Racism Representation and the Canon

Prof. Jason Courtmanche says the irony about the CRT argument is that not only are we not indoctrinating our students into CRT, but we’re actually not doing a great job of teaching about race, equity, or representation. Even though we have been striving to improve diversity, multiculturalism, and pluralism in school curricula since at least the 1980s, the literary canon is still mostly white, mostly male, and mostly dead.