HISTORY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Hopper College, White Supremacy
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Lincoln caplan, the white-supremacist lineage of a yale college, the atlantic, Yale"s calhoun college is one of 12 residential colleges where undergraduates live. It is not the only memorial to calhoun. In charleston, an 80-foot-tall statue of him overlooks calhoun street. In the wake of the church murders in the city last june, students petition to change the college"s name. The petition recognizes that calhoun was respected during his time as an extraordinary american statesman, but stresses that he was one of the most prolific defenders of slavery and white supremacy in the history of the us. They want to eliminate removing all of the monuments and symbols dedicated to the people and institutions that fought to preserve slavery and white supremacy. Calhoun believed that the american dream depended on that presumed inferiority and the slavery that was built onto it.
