Profs Given $1 Million to Apply ‘Critical Race Studies’ to the Classics
“multi-pronged and multi-dimensional assaults against racialized communities, and on the teaching of race and settler-colonialism”
The left’s ideology must be embedded in everything. This is just the latest example.
The College Fix reports:
Professors get $1 million to apply ‘critical race studies’ to the classics
Critical race theory will be applied to the classics thanks to a $1 million grant given to two Ivy League professors.
The Mellon Foundation granted the funds to Brown University Professor Sasha-Mae Eccleston and Dan-el Peralta, a Princeton University professor, for their “Racing the Classics” fellowship.
Neither responded to two emailed requests for comment sent in the past two weeks. The College Fix asked for more information on the program, including if the goal was to inspire activism against current representations of classics.
Specifically, The Fix asked about a failed effort at Brown to remove Greek and Roman status on campus because they represented white supremacy. Activists called their campaign “one step in a broader project of decolonization by confronting Brown’s institutional and ideological legacies of colonialism and white supremacy.”
The fellowship program, which will begin in 2025, continues a project the two began with a conference in 2017.
“The inaugural event invited participants to unabashedly center race and ethnicity in their research in order to counter the dangerously universalizing pretensions of ‘Western Civilization’ and other white supremacist ideologies suffusing the academy,” a description states.
It is the latest part of their scholarship to study race and the classics.
Eccleston (pictured, left) “directs the Critical Classical Studies Postdoctoral/Post-MFA Fellowship Program,’ according to her university bio. Padilla (pictured, right) is critical of “whiteness” in the classics.
The new program will be a “multi-year fellowship program designed to mentor graduate students and early career researchers of the ancient Mediterranean as they center critical race studies in their scholarship and teaching,” according to a Princeton announcement.
The pair said their work is important, particularly during a time of “multi-pronged and multi-dimensional assaults against racialized communities, and on the teaching of race and settler-colonialism.”
Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber personally endorsed the project. “The proposed program will transform the study of classics in significant ways and build a sustainable community of scholars committed to inclusive and collaborative scholarship,” the president said.
The university’s classics department removed the Greek and Latin requirement from the major to combat “systemic racism,” as previously reported by The Fix.
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Very careless to reference a photograph not included in the article. But not as nuts as approaching the classics from a critical race studies perspective. The Mellon Foundation, Brown University, and Princeton are all confused by the “pretensions of Western Civilization’. Are these people doing drugs or something???
“Eccleston (pictured, left) “directs the Critical Classical Studies Postdoctoral/Post-MFA Fellowship Program,’ according to her university bio. Padilla (pictured, right) is critical of “whiteness” in the classics.”
I’ve always found it interesting how European colonialism is endlessly bashed, but the Islamic conquest of India, the Middle East, North Africa, and parts of Europe, along with slavery programs that arguably dwarfed what the Europeans ever did, gets a free pass. The slaughter in support of the ongoing modern-day Islamic conquest of sub-Saharan Africa also gets basically no mention by our media.
We know for a fact that in India the sheikhs competed with each other for how many lakhs (multiples of 100,000) in Hindus they could execute, all by the sword of course, brutality the Europeans never engaged in.
According to woke progressive leftists in academia, Greek and Latin are racist languages now, shouldn’t teach those languages anymore?