The attack on critical race theory (CRT) is not new, but it has certainly taken on a life of its own since I wrote this editor's preface. While arguments within and outside academia abound with ideas about how best to understand CRT, the reality is that the attack on this over 40-year-old concept is not only an attack on CRT itself but is also a facade for rendering silent both the deep legacies of racism in the United States and attempts at better understanding how systemic racism continues to affect Blacks and other minoritized groups in our society. Saying we are a post-racial society does not make it true, and ignoring the ugly truths about our history of racial and ethnic oppressions does not mean that those histories are not part of the fabric of the United States. Teaching about the history of racism allows us better insights into understanding modern phenomena such as housing and neighborhood segregation, the racial wealth gap, institutional racism and disproportionate minority contact, for example. The Bristol University Press Sociology of Diversity series challenges the ridiculous notion that discussing racism will only fuel racism, or that it is divisive and anti-patriotic, or that it is an unfair attack on White people. In many instances, diversity ideology and the ambiguity of similar language only serve to undermine real attempts at getting to the truth about past and existing inequalities in our society. To that end, books in the series open up readers’ eyes beyond the often-disguised public presentations that promote our institutions, public policies and even daily lives as ideal, honest, fair or equal. The previous books in this series have dutifully and meticulously interrogated the concepts of affirmative action, Whiteness and White supremacy in the craft beer industry, and the co-optation and myth of a US food revival. In each book, the authors challenge readers to re-examine how they understand the world by guiding them behind closed curtains in order to dismantle and deconstruct myths in the affirmative action debates, the beer industry and the world of Southern craft foods.