Posted on 09/15/2020 7:51:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
University of Chicago English Department graduate programs will only be open to applicants who plan to study “Black Studies” this year.
According to its admissions information webpage, the department is only accepting graduate applications from those who are “interested in working in and with Black Studies" for this academic year.
"For the 2020-2021 graduate admissions cycle, the University of Chicago English Department is accepting only applicants interested in working in and with Black Studies. We understand Black Studies to be a capacious intellectual project that spans a variety of methodological approaches, fields, geographical areas, languages, and time periods," the university's English Department website states.
The department’s Black Studies program works “in close collaboration with other departments to study African American, African, and African diaspora literature and media, as well as in the histories of political struggle, collective action, and protest that Black, Indigenous and other racialized peoples have pursued, both here in the United States and in solidarity with international movements.”
The program boasts a “commitment” not just to “ideas in the abstract,” but also to more concrete action in the form of “activating histories of engaged art, debate, struggle, collective action, and counterrevolution as contexts for the emergence of ideas and narratives.”
The university introduced this information by proclaiming “that Black Lives Matter, and that the lives of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and Rayshard Brooks matter, as do thousands of others named and unnamed who have been subject to police violence.”
“As literary scholars, we attend to the histories, atmospheres, and scenes of anti-Black racism and racial violence in the United States and across the world. We are committed to the struggle of Black and Indigenous people, and all racialized and dispossessed people, against inequality and brutality.”
The Black Studies program boasts a number of working groups available to students, including the “Race and Capitalism Project,” an initiative with work focusing on “how processes of racialization within the U.S. shaped capitalist society and economy and how capitalism has simultaneously shaped processes of racialization.”
Black Studies courses advertised by the department include “Black Shakespeare,” during which students will learn how Shakespeare played a role in “the shaping of Western ideas about blackness,” and focus on “Shakespearean plays portraying Black characters.”
Campus Reform reached out to the university for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.
And people wonder why they can’t get a job to pay down their massive student debt from taking worthless courses.
RE: And people wonder why they can’t get a job to pay down their massive student debt from taking worthless courses.
They can always get employment from Black Lives Matter. This organization has hundreds of millions in funding even as we speak ( and I guess, that’s the intent anyway ).
Defund the college.
Cut their Federal funds
Given he sad state of humanities in most universities, and the only job prospects of working at an Amazon warehouse upon graduation - I expect they had no more than 5 applicants anyway.
Why stop there??
Why not make the whole college a “black studies” only school.
The only majors/ degrees offered should be in Black Studies.
that is the only way to prove their commitment to the cause.
I know MBA's working for sunglass hut.
RE: Cut their Federal funds
This University does not really need Federal funds, it has endowments close to $9 Billion.
What do they need an English department for? Good grammar be raciss an all, you feel me?
Seems like a clear case of racial discrimination to me.
RE: Why not make the whole college a “black studies” only school.
The University of Chicago has one redeeming feature — it’s ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT. This is where the great Milton Friedman taught ( and won his richly deserved Nobel prize for economics ). His ideas are still being taught by many faculty members there.
In fact, The “Miracle of Chile” was a term used by economist Milton Friedman to describe the reorientation of the Chilean economy in the 1980s and the effects of the economic policies applied by a large group of Chilean economists who collectively came to be known as the Chicago Boys, having studied at the University of Chicago where Friedman taught.
MBAs are no better than liberal arts majors unless they have an engineering degree to go with it.
This University does not really need Federal funds, it has endowments close to $9 Billion.
Good for them, now let them spend some of it.
I hear that English departments are the worst WRT to marxist infestation.
If you thought that an English degree was worthless NOW...
Well, that’s not inclusive.
Regrets will come later for this decision.
Decades, ago our oldest son was graduated with a double engineer degree and a year of business courses. He labeled the loser degrees as IUDs or Instant Unemployment Degrees.
That reality has gotten worse since then, and the cost of these IUD's has increased yearly.
Let's hope Biden doesn't win or these worthless vacation at college degrees will be paid by us.
Keep it up, commie assholes.
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