The department made a bold statement last year detailing new anti-racism policies. It was briefly suspended but ultimately removed from the UCF website.
The University of Central Florida’s English department made a bold statement last year detailing new anti-racism policies, noting that it had an “appalling history of complicity in perpetuating colonialist and racist practices and power structures” and had “upheld a canon of literature that is exclusive, elitist, and blindingly white.”
However, that statement was suspended for a short time last week, with an addendum that it violated a recently enacted state law, according to today!
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