Yale University She is offering a class examining friendships between black and white women this semester, according to the university's course catalog.
CourseTitled “No Time for Tears: Friendships between Black Women and White Women,” it will examine whether “relationships between black women and white women can develop as equals.”
“Can these relationships be unfettered by the trappings of quid pro quo transactions? Can they be built on hard emotional work, trust, and love—dangerous and rare as they may seem—? Are such relationships even possible?” Course description reflects. “Can we explore the powerlessness that makes these relationships difficult? We seek to interrogate with brutal honesty about the stakes that underwrite Black women's relationships with white women.”
Yale University is offering a class examining friendships between black and white women this semester, according to the university's course catalog. (Istock)
The course will be taught by the dean of Yale's Pearson College, Professor Tasha Hawthorne, whose academic work focuses on “the intersection of gender, sexuality, gender, race, and politics in black fiction,” according to the British Daily Mail. To the university website. As a graduate student at Cornell University, Hawthorne knew Lessons on “Race, Power, and Privilege” and “Sociology of the African American Experience.”
Students are guaranteed a “B+” in the class if they meet the requirements, regardless of their grades on individual assignments, according to Reporting at Reform College. The course uses “contract grading,” which often makes it easier for students to get good grades if they put in the effort.
The course, titled “No Time for Tears: Friendships between Black Women and White Women,” will examine whether “relationships between black women and white women can develop as equals.”
This is seen as an “anti-racist approach to assessment” and a way to “engage in educational justice and equity,” according to the curriculum, as reviewed by College Fix. The traditional grading method reinforces “bias related to being white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, speaking and writing Standard English, raised in a community where English is a first language, having college-educated parents, attending high school with AP or IB classes, etc.,” the syllabus states. Fix College reported.
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The course includes numerous Readings About calling white women “Karen,” including A.J a report by time Titled “How Karen Mimi Confronts the Violent History of White Womanhood,” A Fox condition Titled “How Karen Became a Symbol of Racism” and A Newspaper article College Fix magazine reported that the book is titled “Query Karen: The Rise of the Angry White Woman.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to Professor Hawthorne and Yale University for comment.
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