Yale University is offering a course that studies friendships between black and white women this semester, according to the university’s course catalog.
coursetitled “No Time for Tears: Friendships Between Black Women and White Women,” will examine whether “relationships between black women and white women can develop on an equal footing.”
“Can these relationships be unfettered by the trappings of quid pro quo transactions? Can they be built on hard emotional work, trust, and—risky and rare as it seems—love? Are these relationships even possible?” course description thinks. “Can we explore the flaws that make these relationships difficult? We seek to examine with brutal honesty the roles that validate black women’s relationships with white women.”
Yale University is offering a course this semester that studies friendships between black and white women, according to the university’s course catalog. (iStock)
The lecture will be led by Yale Pierson University Dean Professor Tasha Hawthorne, who focuses her academic work on “the intersection of gender, sexuality, genre, race, and politics in black fiction,” according to to the university website. As a graduate student at Cornell University, Hawthorne taught lectures on “Race, Power, and Privilege” and “The Sociology of the African-American Experience.”
Students are guaranteed a grade of ‘B+’ in the class if they meet the requirements, regardless of the grade of individual assignments, according to reporting to College Fix. The course uses “contractual marking”, which often makes it easier for students to get good grades if they just put in the effort.
The course, titled “No Time for Tears: Friendships Between Black Women and White Women,” will examine whether “relationships between black women and white women can develop on an equal footing.”
This is considered an “active anti-racist approach to assessment” and a way to “participate in educational justice and equity,” according to the curriculum, as reviewed by College Fix. The curriculum states that the traditional grading style promotes “prejudices associated with being white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, speaking and writing Standard English, growing up in an English-first language community, having college-educated parents, attending AP or IB high schools, etc. .” College Fix reported.
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The course includes several of reading on calling white women “Karen”, including a report per TIME titled “How the ‘Karen Meme’ Confronts the Violent History of White Women,” Vox article under the title “How ‘Karen’ became a symbol of racism” ia magazine article titled “Questioning Karen: The Rise of the Angry White Woman,” College Fix reported.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Professor Hawthorne and Yale University for comment.
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