College class questions whether black and white women can be friends

Yale University is offering a course this semester that studies friendships between black and white women, according to the university’s course catalog.

The course, titled “No Time to Cry: Friendships Between Black Women and White Women,” will examine whether “relationships between black women and white women can develop equal footing.”

“Can these relationships be freed from the trappings of quid pro quo deals? Can they be built on hard emotional work, on trust and, as risky and rare as it may seem, on love? Are these relationships even possible?” the course description is thoughtful. “Could we explore the deficits that make these relationships difficult? We seek to interrogate with brutal honesty the issues that underpin black women’s relationships with white women.”

As universities grapple with activism and anti-Semitism, the Yale professor insists colleges must remain neutral.

The course will be taught by the dean of Yale’s Pierson College, Professor Tasha Hawthorne, who focuses her academic work on “the intersection of gender, sexuality, gender, race, and politics in black fiction.” , according to the university’s website. As a graduate student at Cornell University, Hawthorne taught courses on “Race, Power, and Privilege” and “The Sociology of the African American Experience.”

Students are guaranteed a “B+” grade in the class if they meet the requirements, regardless of their grades on individual assignments, according to College Fix reports. The course uses “contract grading,” which often makes it easier for students to get good grades if they just put in the effort.

This is considered “an actively anti-racist approach to assessment” and a way to “participate in educational justice and equity,” according to the program, as reviewed by the College Fix. The program states that the traditional grading style promotes “prejudices related to being white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, speaking and writing standard English, having grown up in a native English-speaking community, have parents with a college education, to attend high schools with AP or IB classes. , etc.,” the College Fix reported.

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The course includes several readings about calling white women “Karen”, including one report by TIME entitled “How the “Karen Meme” Confronts the Violent History of White Women,” a Voice article titled “How “Karen” Became a Symbol of Racism,” and a journal article titled “Interrogating Karen: The Rise of the Angry White Woman,” the College Fix reported.

Fox News Digital has contacted Professor Hawthorne and Yale University for comment.

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