A class offered by Yale University this semester will study friendships between white and black women, according to the university’s course catalog.
The course, titled “No Time for Tears: Friendships between Black Women and White Women,” will seek to determine whether these friendships can develop on “equal footing” and be “unfettered by the trappings of quid pro quo transactions,” according to the syllabus. However, an expert on black politics criticized the course.
Students will “interrogate with brutal honesty the stakes that underwrite Black women’s relationships with White women,” according to a copy of the syllabus reviewed by The College Fix.
The course will be taught by Professor Tasha Hawthorne, who serves as dean of Yale’s Pierson College.