HISTORY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Hopper College, Yale Corporation, Institutional Racism
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Noah remnick, yale grapples with ties to slavery in debate over a college"s name, . Calhoun was a yale valedictorian-turned-politician who was from south carolina and one of the 19th century"s foremost white supremacists who promoted slavery. Maya jenkins was accepted into yale and placed into calhoun college where she feels like she cannot be herself because she feels like the slave owner is staring her down. Yale finds itself in a renewed debate over its historical ties to slavery and the symbols that it is affiliated with. Some at yale wish to stop calling the heads of the colleges masters, a traditional title at the university without roots in slavery. In 2003, brown university announced that it would investigate its ties to slavery and to the slave trade. Some yale students question whether focusing on such symbols diverts attention from more substantive campus problems with race, including what they see as a week commitment to faculty diversity.
