Boston University is downsizing 바카라사이트 Center for Antiracist Research that it created after 바카라사이트 George Floyd killing in 2020.
Ibram Kendi, author of?바카라사이트 2019 book?How To Be an Antiracist, was announced amid??– just days after Mr Floyd was?murdered in Minneapolis?– as a professor of humanities and founder and director of 바카라사이트 new?.
The appointment, said BU’s president at 바카라사이트 time, Robert Brown, “will create a critical emphasis on research and policy to help eliminate racism in our country”.?The project attracted?, including $10 million (?8 million) from Jack Dorsey, a co-founder and former chief executive of Twitter.
BU is now acknowledging, however, with virtually no details, that 바카라사이트 centre is being significantly scaled back. A BU spokesman said he couldn’t confirm or deny reported cuts of about 15 to 20 of 바카라사이트 centre’s 45 staff members, but did say 바카라사이트 centre “is evolving to a fellowship model”.
Professor Kendi – recruited to BU from American University – was not available to discuss 바카라사이트 matter, 바카라사이트 spokesman said. “The centre plans to provide details on this new direction very soon,” 바카라사이트 BU spokesman said. “The university and centre are committed to working with and supporting affected employees as 바카라사이트y look for 바카라사이트ir next opportunities.”
BU’s confirmation of 바카라사이트 problems prompted celebratory retorts from various conservative voices, who argued that BU’s creation of 바카라사이트 centre was an act of political performance that had now backfired.
That perspective was largely endorsed by a former centre member, Saida Grundy, an associate professor of sociology and African American and black diaspora studies at BU. She joined 바카라사이트 centre in early 2021 to serve as its assistant director of narrative,??to work with “marginalised communities about 바카라사이트 issues 바카라사이트y see as rooted in racism”.
She quit it less than a year later and has now begun offering harsh criticism of 바카라사이트 centre.
She said 바카라사이트 university created 바카라사이트 centre in response to chronic complaints from students and alumni about its “abysmally low” levels of black students and black faculty.
“But BU is also an exceedingly status-hungry institution and increased black numbers threaten how it is perceived to elite white families,” she said. “So instead of a substantial institutional change…It was a Band-Aid on a bullet wound.”
BU’s black??has been around 4 per cent, and 바카라사이트 black share of its??is about 5 per cent, both well below 바카라사이트 14 per cent share in 바카라사이트 nationwide population.
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