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Database blames ‘white supremacy’ for oppressing authors of color
Arizona State University is encouraging its psychology professors to use articles by non-white authors.
The school’s Department of Psychology webpage offers a “Resources” section that includes a database titled “BIPOC authored psychology papers.”
“Designed for instructors seeking to elevate their syllabi, the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) authored papers showcase voices historically underrepresented in academia,” it states.
It also states that the database “is intended for use by instructors of undergraduate/graduate-level psychology courses to help diversify their syllabi.”
“Instructors should consider how to explicitly highlight the achievements and ideas of BIPOC scientists without tokenizing them,” the resource states.
It also blames “white supremacy” for oppressing authors of color and creating a need to highlight their work.
Accuracy in Media Senior Advisor Corey DeAngelis brought attention to the database in a post on X Monday.
In response, Freedom Foundation Marketing Manager Reed Cooley wrote, “These anti-White lunatics are the academic equivalent of arsonists who burn down libraries only to hand out coloring books — all so the commissars can virtue-signal their way to their next promotion.”
Beyond the BIPOC resource, the department promotes other related initiatives, such as a program called Amplified Voices.
“Centered on bringing topics of racial and social justice into our psychology community, this graduate student-led initiative honors and celebrates BIPOC scholars,” the description of the program states.
Another initiative, called the ENERGIZE Project, was “designed to make the path easier into research labs for underrepresented students.”
The department’s webpage also includes an “Indigenous land acknowledgement” and accompanying video.
It acknowledges that the school is “situated on the ancestral lands of Indigenous nations.”
“We thank the Native communities of the Salt River Valley — including the Akimel O’odham and the Pee Posh nations — who have inhabited this place for centuries, and whose stewardship of the land and waterways allows us to be here now,” the statement reads.
Meanwhile, Arizona State University is facing scrutiny for allegedly continuing its DEI initiatives despite President Trump’s federal ban.
Federal watchdog group Protect the Public’s Trust filed a federal complaint against the school after Accuracy in Media released an undercover video of an associate dean admitting DEI practices are “all still happening,” The College Fix reported.
“Associate Dean of Inclusive Design for Equity and Access and Clinical Associate Professor Chandra Crudup declared that the university changed the language of its DEI programs, to go unnoticed, but ‘we are still doing the same thing,’” the complaint states.
It also alleges that the school has an “inclusion network” in nearly every office of the university that provides faculty tools to embed DEI into curriculum.
In another undercover video released by Accuracy in Media, an enrollment coach acknowledges that the institution is still actively integrating DEI initiatives.
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