In defence of alternative narratives

We have a huge mass unaware of our history and how it continues to shape present-day interactions.

Anyone keeping up with the news coming from the United States would be quite aware of an ongoing movement from conservative forces to prevent the teaching in schools of critical race theory (CRT) or anything they deem to be CRT. Many states have enacted laws against it, and similar efforts in other places are going strong. For a discipline with a history that extends barely beyond three decades, it is remarkable that CRT has proved to be such a bugbear to those who would object to interrogating American history and the role racism has played in it.