Are black holes racist now too? Cornell's new race and the cosmos course

Are black holes racist now too? Cornell's new race and the cosmos course
Are black holes racist now too? Cornell's new race and the cosmos course
Now black holes in space are racist too? Cornell launches 'race and the cosmos' course to prove a connection between scientific terms and racial blackness' using music by Outkast and Janelle Monae Cornell is offering a new course titled Black Holes: Race and the Cosmos The course 'will introduce students to the fundamentals of astronomy through readings in Black Studies,' according to its website  It will use works like music by Outkast and Janelle Monae to prove the connection  The term 'black hole' was first used to describe the light-swallowing space masses in 1967 Black holes were first predicted by Einstein in his Theory of General Relativity in 1916 

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Cornell University has launched a new woke course called Black Holes: Race and the Cosmos, which seeks to prove a connection between the decades-old scientific term and racial bias.  

The course, Black Holes: Race and the Cosmos, claims it 'will introduce students to the fundamentals of astronomy concepts through readings in Black Studies' to go against 'conventional wisdom' that black holes are not racist. 

'Conventional wisdom would have it that the "black" in black holes has nothing to do with race. Surely there can be no connection between the cosmos and the idea of racial blackness. Can there? 

'Contemporary Black Studies theorists, artists, fiction writers implicitly and explicitly posit just such a connection,' the description reads. 

Taught by professors Nicholas Battaglia and Parisa Vaziri, the course - which would be part of the school's $60,000-a-year tuition, claims that 'artists and musicians' - like Outkast and singer Janelle Monae - 'conjure blackness through cosmological themes and images'. 

A description of Cornell's new course, Black Holes: Race and the Cosmos, on its website. It says: 'Conventional wisdom would have it that the

A description of Cornell's new course, Black Holes: Race and the Cosmos, on its website. It says: 'Conventional wisdom would have it that the "black" in black holes has nothing to do with race. Surely there can be no connection between the cosmos and the idea of racial blackness. Can there?'

'Works may  include works by theorists like Michelle Wright and Denise Ferreira da Silva, authors like Octavia Butler and Nalo Hopkinson, music by Sun Ra, Outkast and Janelle Monáe. 

The course, Black Holes: Race and the Cosmos, claims it 'will introduce students to the fundamentals of astronomy concepts through readings in Black Studies' to go against 'conventional wisdom' that black holes are not racist.

The course, Black Holes: Race and the Cosmos, claims it 'will introduce students to the fundamentals of astronomy concepts through readings in Black Studies' to go against 'conventional wisdom' that black holes are not racist.

'Astronomy concepts will include the electromagnetic spectrum, stellar evolution, and general relativity,' the course description reads. 

It is the latest in a series of increasingly liberal steps by Ivy League schools over the last 18 months. 

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