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Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman (who strikes through his last name “to highlight how it was bestowed on his family by slave masters in Jamaica”) was denied a full-time position at University College London, along with his idea for a black studies — or, “critical white studies” — MA program.

Coleman, “Britain’s first research associate in the philosophy of ‘race,’” has devoted much of his work to determining “whether the university curriculum is ‘too white'” due to “dead white men[‘s]” work being favored over that of “overlooked black scholars.”

The professor believes the denial of a full-time post is due to the fact that his proposed curriculum is too “critical of the white establishment.”

Times Higher Education reports:

“White hegemony was…to be put under the microscope,” he told Times Higher Education.

“Turning the spotlight on to the ivory tower, putting the fear of God into many of its scholars – predominantly racialised as white – who had contented themselves hitherto to research and teach in an ‘aracial’ – aka white-dominated – way,” he added.

Among those criticised by Dr. Coleman include Francis Galton, the famous Victorian “father of eugenics” and UCL benefactor.

Jonathan Wolff, executive dean of UCL’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities, said that the proposed MA was rejected because “it became apparent that UCL is not yet ready to offer a strong programme in this area”.

“If the new MA was accepted a new job would have been created, for which Dr. Coleman would have been encouraged to apply, although, of course, the appointment would have been open to all applicants in accordance with UCL’s rigorous equal opportunities policy,” he said.

Professor Coleman, who received his PhD at the University of Michigan, says he’ll look for a gig in the United States if he doesn’t obtain a position at UCL.

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h/t to Discriminations.

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