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Podcast: The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum
Episode: Critical Race Theory Is Making Our Heads Explode: Erec Smith Sifts Through The Pieces
Description: Critical Race Theory, or CRT, is everywhere all of a sudden. Having made its way from academia to K-12 education, it came to the attention of the Trump Administration last year and quickly became a bogeyman of the political right. From there, state legislatures began crafting bills that would ban the "divisive concepts" allegedly embedded in CRT-based curriculum. But the bills have only added to public confusion over what CRT really means and partisan media coverage has whipped up the whole debate into something resembling a moral panic. _  Dr. Erec Smith is a professor of Rhetoric and Composition at York Co...