Hamline's Cultural Diversity



Home Student accused of multiple sexual-violence code violations 1977 Hamline Cultural Diversity Report "Small-town university, big city" reactions •Kristin Mapel-Bloomberg's LTE •Nancy Holland's LTE Additional Letters to the Editor Peterson RA Carrie Neve resigns Peterson residents rally in support of Neve ••••••••••••••• Achives About Give Feedback	Nancy Holland's Letter to the Editor Your article on campus diversity in today's Oracle makes many good points, but suffers from incomplete research in at least one area. You report that the women's studies program at Hamline is among the majors at Hamline with no courses that deal specifically with "racial inequity". This is wrong in two ways. First, there is at least once such course, a philosophy department course on "African-American Women Thinkers" that is cross-listed with both women's studies and African-American studies. Secondly, the women's studies program has been structured to incorporate "racial inequity" into virtually all of our courses, rather than segregating such concerns into a single course. In my feminist philosophy course, for instance, roughly one-third of the class is devoted to a book on "Whiteness" that addresses issue of race and class from a wide variety of perspectives, in addition to the discussion of "racial inequity" in many of our other readings. And as a past coordinator of the women's studies program, I can assure you that my course is far from unique in this regard. Among the interesting and important theoretical question your article raises is whether the campus climate for diversity benefits more from an isolated course in a major that is otherwise entirely dominated by white male discourse, or from a major in which diversity issues are addressed in almost every course. In either case, it seems to me that we need to start with a fully accurate account of the current situation. Nancy J. Holland Chair, Department of Philosophy

"Small-town university, big city" reactions
•Kristin Mapel-Bloomberg's LTE
•Nancy Holland's LTE

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Nancy Holland's Letter to the Editor

Your article on campus diversity in today's Oracle makes many good points, but suffers from incomplete research in at least one area. You report that the women's studies program at Hamline is among the majors at Hamline with no courses that deal specifically with "racial inequity". This is wrong in two ways. First, there is at least once such course, a philosophy department course on "African-American Women
Thinkers" that is cross-listed with both women's studies and African-American studies.

Secondly, the women's studies program has been structured to incorporate "racial inequity" into virtually all of our courses, rather than segregating such concerns into a single course. In my feminist philosophy course, for instance, roughly one-third of the class is devoted to a book on "Whiteness" that addresses issue of race and class from a wide variety of perspectives, in addition to the discussion of "racial inequity" in many of our other readings. And as a past coordinator of the women's studies program, I can assure you that my course is far from unique in this regard.

Among the interesting and important theoretical question your article raises is whether the campus climate for diversity benefits more from an isolated course in a major that is otherwise entirely dominated by white male discourse, or from a major in which diversity issues are addressed in almost every course. In either case, it seems to me that we need to start with a fully accurate account of the current situation.

Nancy J. Holland
Chair, Department of Philosophy