Antiracism Center at U. Minnesota to Close After Leader Resigns Following Plagiarism Allegations
“The main allegations have come from other Black female scholars.”
Much like DEI policies, the academic ‘antiracist’ trend seems to be on its way out.
Inside Higher Ed reports:
U of Minnesota Antiracism Center to Close After Founder Steps Down
The University of Minnesota–Twin Cities is closing its Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity, which star professor Rachel Hardeman founded in 2021 in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.
The closure comes after Hardeman, who is accused of plagiarism, left her tenured faculty position last week. The main allegations have come from other Black female scholars. In a February 2023 email published by Minnesota Public Radio, Hardeman wrote to one of her accusers, Brigette Davis, saying, “I fucked up.”
“I moved quickly and thoughtlessly in throwing together a proposal,” Hardeman wrote. (Davis said Hardeman was referring to a grant proposal to study the connection between police violence and negative birth outcomes among Black women, which Hardeman submitted to the National Institutes of Health.)
“I threw your stuff in thinking I’ll edit, I’ll talk to Brigette and see what she thinks, gauge her desire to be involved in this or future iterations, etc and then failed to do so getting swept into the momentum of a deadline and then fully forgetting where it all came from,” Hardeman wrote to Davis.
Hardeman confirmed the authenticity of this email to Inside Higher Ed. But she denied plagiarizing Davis, saying what was investigated by the university “was deemed an honest error.”
“She and I were working on very similar things,” Hardeman said.
Davis went public with her allegations last month on LinkedIn, saying she already “tried all the ‘proper channels.’” She wrote that she attempted to work out the problem internally with Hardeman, to no avail, while “UMN led a cover-up and the NIH has its hands busy.”
“I had been told by Rachel that the ‘work was too important,’ and that if I said anything it would cast doubt on the empirical study of racism overall,” Davis wrote.
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Another fat angry black angry woman (lesbian maybe) plagiarizing “important work”, Excuse me. I’ll be back in an hour or two after I stop laughing
Someone tell me is there a race grifter that hasn’t plagiarized someone else’s work?
I guess the woke grants are drying up and they’re fighting over the scraps now. Is it wrong to ask questions and cast doubt on the empirical study of racism overall?