Sunday, June 10, 2018

Campus Reform - Hobart and William Smith Colleges: Course claims ‘objectivity’ is a ‘white mythology’ - Needed: more courses devoted to witch doctor science? --tma




A course being offered next year at Hobart and William Smith Colleges will explore how concepts like "meritocracy" and "objectivity" are just "white mythologies."
According to the course description, such "social constructions" serve to "position 'the West' and 'whiteness' as the ideal" by fostering "implicit views about the place of White, male, Euro-American subjects as the norm." ...