Yale English students call for end of focus on white male writers

Undergraduates press for compulsory course on canonical poets to be ‘decolonised’

Undergraduates at Yale University have launched a petition calling on the English department to abolish a core course requirement to study canonical writers including Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton, saying that “it is unacceptable that a Yale student considering studying English literature might read only white male authors”.

The prestigious Connecticut university requires its English majors to spend two semesters studying a selection of authors it labels the “major English poets”: “Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, and John Donne in the fall; John Milton, Alexander Pope, William Wordsworth, and TS Eliot or another modern poet in the spring”.

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Notice the "of colors" and women ( in the past) that protested to be allowed to attend a school created, funded, and grown by white men to be "decolonized"? How can white men colonize something they built? If they don't like white male poets then attend a woman's college, or a "college of color". Attend college in China or Mexico.

This is the equivalent of stolen valor. The invaders want to pretend they were a part of the creation of this world class university and give their third rate poets status.