It was over a decade ago in a faculty meeting about diversifying our literature curriculum that a colleague mentioned the need to get rid of the “dead-white-males” from the reading list. There were approximately twelve colleagues in the meeting, and no one spoke up, even though people fidgeted in their seats after the comment.
I deftly waited and priv…
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