“the concept of Western civilization emerged as a euphemism for “white civilization” in the writing of men like Lothrop Stoddard, a Klansman and eugenicist.”
#decolonsing #classics #whiteness #whitesupremacy #mythology
#history #edchat
“the #harm caused by practitioners of classics in the two millenniums since antiquity: the classical justifications of #slavery, #racescience, #colonialism, #Nazism and other 20th-century #fascisms”
#decolonsing #classics #whiteness #whitesupremacy #rhetoric #ethics #edchat
“Now, these words implied a lot of things:
- that Great Literature is White Literature
- that a course made up of mostly non-white American writers required a qualifier
- that hiring committees knew all of this and felt the same way”
#decolonsing #academia #race #whiteness
