Fox News: Yale University class questions whether Black and White women can be friends

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Yale University class questions whether Black and White women can be friends

A Yale University course called "No Time for Tears" will examine whether "relationships between Black women and White women can develop an equal footing."......                    ...                        ...You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login is offering a class that studies the friendships between Black and White women this semester, according to the university's course catalog.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, titled "No Time for Tears: Friendships between Black Women and White Women," will examine whether "relationships between Black women and White women can develop an equal footing." ......"Can those relationships be unfettered by the trappings of quid pro quo transactions? Can they be built upon hard emotional labor, trust, and–risky and rare as it may seem–love? Are these relationships even possible?" the course description ponders. "Might we explore the deficits that make these relationships difficult? We seek to interrogate with brutal honesty the stakes that underwrite Black women's relationships with White women."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......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, genre, race, and politics in Black fiction," according You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login. As a graduate student at Cornell University, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login classes on "Race, Power, and Privilege" and "The Sociology of the African American Experience." ......Students are guaranteed the grade of a 'B+' in the class if they meet the requirements, regardless of their grades on individual assignments, according to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login. The course uses "contract grading," which often makes it easier for students to receive good grades if they simply make an effort. ......This is seen as "an actively anti-racist approach to assessment" and a way of "participating in educational justice and equity," according to the syllabus, as reviewed by the College Fix. The syllabus states that the traditional grading style promotes "bias related to being White Anglo Saxon Protestant, speaking and writing standard English, growing up in a first language English-speaking community, having parents with collegiate education, attending high schools with AP or IB classes, etc.," the College Fix reported. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......The course includes You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login about calling White women "Karen," including a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login by TIME titled, "How the 'Karen Meme' Confronts the Violent History of White Womanhood," a Vox You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login titled, "How 'Karen' became a symbol of racism," and a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login titled, "Querying Karen: The Rise of the Angry White Woman," the College Fix reported. ......Fox News Digital reached out to Professor Hawthorne and Yale University for comment. ...

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