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University Of Chicago: Graduate English Department Only Accepting ‘Applicants Interested In Working In And With Black Studies’

Hank Berrien
University Of Chicago: Graduate English Department Only Accepting ‘Applicants Interested In Working In And With Black Studies’
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If you want to be accepted as a graduate student in the University of Chicago’s English Department, you will not succeed in your application unless you want to work in and with black studies.

In  July, the department issued a faculty statement stating:

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