Posted on 08/12/2016 11:26:50 PM PDT by rickmichaels
A leftist art professor from the University of Florida has advised her students to avoid the phrase "melting pot," because that's racist.
If you're a student, and you happen to wind up in Professor Pamela Brekka’s class Art Appreciation: American Diversity and Global Arts, you might want to avoid uttering "melting pot" or she'll knock you down a few grades.
A portion of Brekka's online syllabus reads in all-caps:
"DO NOT EVER USE THE PHRASE ‘MELTING POT’ IN THIS CLASS. IN THIS CLASS WE CELEBRATE DIVERSITY, NOT SAMENESS."
In an interview with Campus Reform, Brekka stated she felt the term didn't accurately reflect diversity, saying the phrase "signals a Euro-White Colonial standard, point blank, period." Brekka rather prefers the other analogy of America as a salad bowl, where individual ingredients are mixed together but remain distinct.
As noted by the The Daily Caller, professor Brekka admitted to knocking students' grades for saying the phrase, though she denies using it as a "strict policy."
According to one of the professor's students, Brekka's leftist fanaticism goes into other areas as well, with one of her discussions focusing on whether or not "architectural design has been dominated by men in order to promote a social/political order dominated by men."
"It’s almost as if the questions, how they’re worded, you can only answer them this one certain left-wing way," the student told Campus Reform. "It was not a college level course … because we didn’t get a lot of the information."
There has not been a “melting pot” in this country ever since the term was invented. It was a wish. The wish was never fulfilled. The country is divided in dozens of ways, as the left forces people into groups, and gives some groups special privileges, and condemns other groups to second-class citizenship.
There’s a Cuban-American club named SALAD.
Just tryin' to insert some logic here.
View the list of those brave men who died on the USS Arizona. No “melting pot” in 1941. The “Greatest Generation” kept us from losing our borders, language, and culture to Nazism and Totalianism. BTW: My latest Medicare bulletin arrived with Chinese characters. Thank you, Ted Kennedy!
We’re becoming The United Nations.
Fire her.
Is that a real tatoo? Photoshopped?
Professor Pamela Brekka, a notorious Segregationist from the South. A traditional Democrat you might say.
Biography
Pamela Merrill Brekka has a PhD in Art History (University of Florida ‘12), and an MA in Art History (Rutgers University ‘99). Her specialties are Flemish and Dutch art. Her research interests include: Renaissance cartography; the significance of underdrawings and the master’s ‘hand’ in Netherlandish painting; Reformation era exegesis and the illustrated bible, and the Jewish construct in early modern Europe.
Brekka’s publications include: “The Living Tabernacle in Post-Tridentine Biblical Literature,” in (forthcoming) eds. Walter Melion, Michel Weeman and Bret Rothstein, The Anthropomorphic Lens: Anthropomorphism, Microcosmism and Analogy in Early Modern Thought and Visual Arts (Leiden: Brill, 2013); “The Antwerp Polyglot Bible’s ‘New World Indian-Jew’ Map as a Reflection of Empire,” Imago Mundi: International Journal for the History of Cartography, vol. 63, part 2 (June 2011): 240-243; “Pieter de Hooch,” “Nicolaes Maes,” “Pieter Brueghel the younger,” and “Jan Breughel the elder,” in Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution 1600-1720, ed. Christopher Baker (Westport, 2002), and “An Early Netherlandish Adoration of the Magi,” Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, vol. 59 (2000): 56-61.
She is the recipient of a Newberry Library Fellowship in the History of Cartography (2010), and is a University Women’s Club Scholar (UF ‘10). Dr. Brekka teaches several courses at the University of Florida, including: The History of Jewish Art (ARH 2930/JST 2930); Dutch Baroque in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer (ARH 4930/ARH 6916); Introduction to the Principles and History of Art I (ARH 2050), and Art & Humanity: Introduction to the Visual Arts from a Global Perspective (forthcoming).
Contact Information
352-333-3333
pbrekka@ufl.edu
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Gainesville, FL 32611
I wonder what she would do if a student, who wasn’t one of her students, used the phrase? Turn him in?
America is a petri dish where hostile organisms try to kill the host.
She wears her tramp stamp on her neck.
IN THIS CLASS WE DENIGRATE WHITE HETEROSEXUAL MALES
She may be white but she’s a Red pinko commie through and through
Not dividing into races is the ultimate racism.
Yup, same political faction that maintained slavery.
Real tattoo. Another selfish SJW with daddy issues.
Good grief, we are doomed!
Over time, Italian-Americans married Russian-Americans, Irish-Americans married French-Americans, and the next generation would be just plain American.
The Left wants a country of mutually-hostile factions, to make it easier to control by "community organizers". They thus encourage the immigration of populations least-likely to easily assimilate.
This “professor” should not be teaching. There is no justification for “knocking down” a student’s grade just because you do not like their viewpoint. This is abuse of power.
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