This is another excellent example of how progressives are moving society backwards. What a pointless course.
The College Fix reports:
Yale course asks if black and white women can be friendsA class offered by Yale University semester will study friendships between white and black women, according to the university’s course catalog.The course, titled “No Time for Tears: Friendships between Black Women and White Women,” will seek to determine whether these friendships can develop on “equal footing” and be “unfettered by the trappings of quid pro quo transactions,” according to the syllabus. However, an expert on black politics criticized the course.Students will “interrogate with brutal honesty the stakes that underwrite Black women’s relationships with White women,” according to a copy of the syllabus reviewed by The College Fix.The course will be taught by Professor Tasha Hawthorne, who serves as dean of Yale’s Pierson College.Hawthorne has not responded to requests for comment on her goals for the course. The Fix sent an email on Dec. 16 and tried to follow up via phone, but received no response in the past two weeks.The course uses “contract grading,” which generally makes it easier for students to get good grades just for making an effort.Students are guaranteed a B+ in the class if they meet the contract’s requirements, regardless of grades received on individual assignments.This is seen as “an actively anti-racist approach to assessment” and a way of “participating in educational justice and equity,” according to the syllabus.The evaluation portion of the syllabus suggests traditionally graded courses promote “bias related to being White Anglo Saxon Protestant, speaking and writing standard English, growing up in a first language English-speaking community, having parents with collegiate education, attending high schools with AP or IB classes, etc.”The course includes several readings about calling white women “Karen,” a term that generally refers to a complaining white woman, sometimes with the implication she is racist. The syllabus can change, however, according to a note from the instructor.
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