Posted on 03/27/2017 11:38:24 AM PDT by C19fan
Students majoring in English at Harvard University will soon be required to take a diversity course featuring authors that have been “marginalized for historical reasons.”
James Simpson, who chairs the English Department at Harvard, told Campus Reform that the requirement was created in response to a “very reflective” letter from a student, which argued that there was insufficient representation of racial minorities and women in the Harvard curriculum and proposed that the English department address this by instituting a diversity course requirement.
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Ayn Rand has been marginalized by college English departments. Does she count?
Was it their Pride or our Prejudice that marginalized them?
Harvard does no better in their ‘law’ school.
At Harvard, this would be a Bible study.
Wait... does that mean they get to study dead, white men again?
Marginalized authors:
C.S. Lewis
G.K. Chesterton
Daniel Defoe
James Fennimore Cooper
Flannery O’Connor
Edmund Specer
Ben Johnson
My college roommate, who was black, applied to Harvard Medical School. She was accepted, and they sent her an invitation to a “Third World Weekend,” so that she could decide whether “a student like yourself” could adapt to the Harvard environment.
“Joy, they noticed you’re from Houston,” I said. She ended up going to UC-San Francisco, the only out-of-state student they accepted that year.
Flannery O’Connor is a woman. Dead, though.
What’s next? A mandatory course in Ebonics?
Yeah, I know. But she’s “marginalized” now.
You can’t read one line from her and not tell she’s a woman.
Tom the Son had Thomas Paine and the Federalist Papers in his English literature course this semester. I guess Central Piedmont Community College is ahead of the “marginalized authors” curve.
Turkey thinks he wants to major in economics, now, instead of chemistry, so he can be a politician. “Anyone with a pulse can get an economics degree,” I said. I’ll have to remind him that Margaret Thatcher was a chemist.
Not my sort of thing. I like Tolstoy better.
Oh my!
The Texas Freepers will get you for that!
I believe “marginalized authors” means a person who wrote more books than he or she sold because no one wants to read pure crap.
A lot of times, authors are "marginalized" for very good reasons: They peddle crap, they write crap, or they can't really write, and only got published because of some mandate, not because they are profound, noteworthy, or are filling a profitable niche.
I'm guessing HRC and spawn scrivenings will be required reading.
Decades ago, college observers noted the English departments were where communists were given refuge.
Not if they were around Houston in the 80s.
Ugh! That’s great to read, but it’s NOT literature!
“Common Core” influenced, probably: supposed to read nonfiction.
Maybe HMS saw Houston, thought Houston St, NYC, and thought your friend was really from the Bowery portion of Houston St?
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