New Mexico State University’s English Department is deriding “the racist history” of English and its “subdisciplines”, in a recently-adopted “anti-oppression” framework that says “antiracist work” is “the responsibility of” all English faculty, reports Campus Reform:
New Mexico State University’s Department of English provides faculty and students with an “Anti-Oppression Statement” that calls for a curriculum that “critically examines the racist history of the subdisciplines of English studies.”
Its web page sets goals for advancing anti-racism and combatting “white supremacy” as part of its “Anti-Oppression” framework.
“The English department recognizes that systemic racism, more specifically white supremacy, remains pervasive in US society and education,” the page says. “This form of oppression, and the others with which it intersects, results in unequal access…”
“As educators we have a special responsibility to challenge racism,” the page continues. “The English department commits to an ongoing process of change towards antiracist goals…”
School officials outline…efforts to: “Make antiracist work the responsibility of the whole department.”… The department aims to create a curriculum that “emphasizes the artistic and scholarly work of people of color” and “critically examines the racist history of the subdisciplines of English studies.”… the department’s desired curriculum “directly and substantively confronts the racism and white supremacy in artistic and scholarly work of white US and European writers (canonical and not) in all subdisciplines.”
“Antiracist” pedagogy often promotes hostility to free markets and colorblind policies. “To love capitalism is to end up loving racism. To love racism is to end up loving capitalism…Capitalism is essentially racist; racism is essentially capitalist,” says Ibram Kendi’s book How to Be An Antiracist, which was assigned reading for many college students.
Occidental College offers the course “Black Queer Thought,” which critiques “the demands” of “patriarchy and capitalism.”
Studies have found that Marxist indoctrination reduces students’ lifetime earnings.
The University of Minnesota’s Culture and Family Lab recently denounced the “Whiteness Pandemic” it blames the United States for.
The man tapped by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to write Minnesota’s ethnic studies curriculum called for the “overthrow” of the United States, because he says it is “irreversibly racist”, reported the National Review.
Some progressive academics disparage “whiteness.” The “key concept” in Ibram Kendi’s book “How To Be An Antiracist” is that discrimination against whites is the only way to achieve equality: “The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination,” wrote Kendi in that book. That book is a “comprehensive introduction to critical race theory,” gushed the progressive media organ Slate.
