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  Curriculum Political Correctness Universities teach students how to ‘decolonize’ their Thanksgiving

  Brittany Slaughter - Liberty University •November 27, 2019

  'How You Can Eat Your Turkey and Decolonize Thanksgiving Too.'

• ‘Decolonize’ curricula? No, MORE instruction on the ways of the West, please

  Dave Huber - Associate Editor •March 5, 2019

  Since 2015, universities across the Western world have played host to campaigns to "decolonize" various curricula, meaning mounting a challenge to "the dominance of the Western canon in the humanities and social sciences, as well as the under-representation of women and minorities in academia.

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  Activism Higher Ed Bubble Editor promises to ‘decolonize’ prestigious academic journal

  Daniel Payne •January 31, 2018

  The editor's 'fervent hope' is to 'set the journal on an irrevocable course of change.'

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  Analysis Curriculum Political Correctness Yale ‘decolonizes’ English dept. after complaints studying white authors ‘actively harms’ students

  Aryssa Damron - Yale University •October 27, 2017

  Yale English majors are no longer required to take classes focused on Chaucer or Shakespeare.

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  Activism Bias Curriculum New ‘food justice’ course: Assignments include ‘decolonized’ recipe, aiding Trump resistance effort

  Tirzah Montanye - Wheaton College •February 28, 2017

  Course decries ‘global capitalist’ takeover of food industry.

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  Curriculum Political Correctness White Privilege Yale student petition: ‘Decolonize’ the English department curriculum

  College Fix Staff •May 29, 2016

  Because studying old white guys is 'especially hostile' to students of color.