"The University of Chicago's English department, which has been ranked nationally as top in its field, has declared a set of beliefs to which its faculty is "committing."
Its announcement began with the following mea culpa:
- "English as a discipline" has encouraged "colonization, exploitation, extraction and anti-Blackness."
- It then expressed the faculty's collective belief: "In light of this historical reality, we believe that undoing persistent, recalcitrant anti-Blackness in our discipline and in our institutions must be the collective responsibility of all faculty, here and elsewhere."
- Finally, it announced that "for the 2020-2021 graduate admissions cycle" it will accept "only applicants interested in working in and with Black Studies."
It is this last restriction that has generated the most interest—and criticism.
But it is the formal declaration of a collective creed by a university department that is most troubling...Read all.
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