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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 "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.
'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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