Yale University is offering a class this semester that studies friendships between black and white women, according to the university’s course catalog.
The courseTitled “No Time for Tears: Friendships between Black Women and White Women,” it will explore whether “relationships between Black women and white women can be on an equal footing.”
“Can these relationships be unleashed by the trappings of quid pro quo transactions? Can they be built on hard emotional labor, trust and – as risky and rare as it may seem – love? Are these relationships possible?’ the course description thinks. “Can we examine the shortcomings that make these relationships difficult? We seek to interrogate with brutal honesty the stakes that underwrite black women’s relationships with white women.”
Yale University is offering a class this semester that studies friendships between black and white women, according to the university’s course catalog. (iStock)
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 to to the university website. As a graduate student at Cornell University, Hawthorne taught lessons 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 their grades on individual assignments, according to reporting in the College Fix. The course uses ‘contract grading’, 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 explore whether “relationships between Black women and white women can develop on equal terms.”
This is seen as “an actively anti-racist approach to assessment” and a way to “participate in educational justice and equity,” according to the syllabus, as reviewed by the College Fix. The syllabus states that the traditional assessment style “promotes biases associated with 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.
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The course is inclusive several lectures about calling white women “Karen,” including a report Through TIME titled: “How the ‘Karen Meme’ Confronts White Women’s Violent History”, a Vox article titled: “How ‘Karen’ Became a Symbol of Racism,” and a magazine article titled: “Querying Karen: The Rise of the Angry White Woman,” the College Fix reported.
Fox News Digital contacted Professor Hawthorne and Yale University for comment.
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