I was asked to teach an Honors course for African American studies with my grad school background in Post Colonial Literature and studies in the Harlem Renaissance, etc. Heck, I even went to grave of Richard Wright in Paris to pay my respects. But I declined, owing to the very concerns you mentioned, but I do have lots of freedom and liberty, and I teach books like Frederick Douglass, Between the World and Men, Malcolm X, Huck Finn, and many short stories. Lost of independent reading, too. Used to teach Invisible Man. Yes, teachers and professors are dragged through hell these days. Lots of blame to go around. My colleagues only teach "the white man canon," and I'm the only one who really changes it up for my mostly women-multiethnic scholars. Very few "white men" in my classes. I wanted to include "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" rather than "A Catcher in the Rye," and a colleague gave me a few words and refused. It's a much better book, a classic, wih themes and topics, like anti-vaxxers, that resonate today, more than the hormonal whinings of an prep school punk. (But I still admire the book, btw). Sorry. You hit an artery. lol. Can I use this as an essay? LOL