Yale Fall Catalog Loaded With Courses Based on Race and Racism

Yale Fall Catalog Loaded With Courses Based on Race and Racism

As I have said repeatedly, the campus left does not care about the 2024 election or public opinion. They’re just doing what they want to do.

Campus Reform reports:

Yale fall catalog loaded with racism-focused courses as tuition nears $70K

Despite its reputation as one of the most prestigious and academically rigorous schools in the world, Yale University is set to offer more than a dozen courses focused on racism, racial oppression, and white supremacy in the upcoming fall semester as tuition continues to rise.

Among the offerings is a sociology course entitled “Is That Racist?: Theory and Methods for Diagnosing and Demonstrating Racism,” which promises to teach students “a broad range of ways social theorists have defined the term and methods they have used to demonstrate” racism.

The course also asks students to examine “who benefits and who suffers from a given definition” of racism and how “racism functions across contexts” in the United States.

A similar philosophy course offered exclusively to first-year students called “Philosophy, Race, and Racism” asks whether racism is best understood “in terms of notions like ‘racial oppression’ and ‘white supremacy.’”

The class is taught by Robert Gooding-Williams, the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Philosophy at Yale. Before joining Yale, Gooding-Williams founded Columbia University’s Center for Race, Philosophy, and Social Justice and authored books including “Look, A Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture, and Politics.”

Some classes examine economics through the lens of racism and racial politics, such as one history seminar entitled “What is Racial Capitalism?,”examines what the course description calls the relationship between racial hierarchy and capital accumulation. The seminar also explores what it describes as the “Black Radical Tradition.”

“This seminar starts from the position that the historical movement, settlement, and hierarchical arrangements of the racial subaltern and even those deemed ‘white’ are inseparable from regimes of capital accumulation,” the course description reads.But is that all there is to racial capitalism? What more can be said about these regimes? And what of the varied responses to racial capitalism, from accommodation to the Black Radical Tradition to other forms of subterfuge?

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