Loyola U. Maryland’s English Department Claims Literature Promotes White Supremacy
“confronting racism requires that we actively facilitate conversations about it in the classroom”
How is this insanity still being pushed in higher education? It doesn’t even seem real anymore.
The College Fix reports:
Loyola Maryland English dept. says literature built on ‘white supremacy,’ may rename program
Loyola University Maryland’s Department of English recently announced its commitment to “anti-racism,” claiming literature promotes “white supremacy.”
“Literature and the literary canons have been used to validate white supremacy,” the department’s website states.
As a result, the department will “reflect on what it means to be called an ‘English Department’ given the discipline’s roots in imperialism and Eurocentrism,” and “will consider renaming,” according to the website.
The website also states that its faculty play a role “in creating inclusive spaces at the university and in actively challenging any form of white supremacy.”
The department affirms that “black lives matter,” “racism is based in white supremacy,” and confronting racism requires that we actively facilitate conversations about it in the classroom.”
Moreover, the English department made a promise to “acknowledge the centrality of whiteness in the history and evolution of literary canons.”
As a result, the department said it will immediately hire a professor of African American literature and include more authors of color in their curriculum. It will examine all classes and commit to “making anti-racist teaching central in each one.”
What’s more, the department promises to “avoid centering the experiences of white students” in the classroom by “interrogating the presumed invisibility of whiteness in the classroom and the concept of the ‘universal reader’ as always being white and male.”
In 1852, Jesuits founded Loyola University Maryland to provide students a Catholic liberal arts curriculum in recognition of the works of St. Ignatius of Loyola.
The school’s English department sees that Jesuit mission as a “commitment to serving an urban, majority-Black city with a history of racial injustice.”
The Fix reached out to Loyola University Maryland’s media relations office and the English department for comment, but did not receive any reply.
In response to the school’s claims, Emory University English professor Mark Bauerlein told The College Fix that the discipline of English is on a concerning trajectory.
“The position of the Loyola department gives neat evidence for why English has become such a marginal discipline,” Bauerlein said.
“How many 19-year-olds want to spend a semester in a class with teachers who are such scolds?” he said.
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Today’s lesson: How to reduce an organization’s credibility to less than zero.
English as a field of study became irrelevant long before wokeness took over. I noticed in high school (a long long time ago) that nearly everything they forced us to read in English class was garbage.
Now, it’s racist garbage. Great literature has been on the outs for a long time.
I was compelled to read Silas Marner, and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man when in English classes. ’nuff said.
Yes, criticize whites — the race that literally invented alphabets for other cultures who previously had no literature of their own due to lacking one.
Another one serious institute of higher learning barreling headlong down the path to being just another Harvard.
The simple, cost-saving solution is to eliminate the English Department.