Yale Drops Introductory Art History Course as ‘Overwhelmingly White’

Yale Drops Introductory Art History Course as ‘Overwhelmingly White’
Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., on June 7, 2019. Farragutful [CC BY-SA /4.0]
Matthew Vadum
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In a victory for the forces of political correctness, Yale University’s undergraduate school will stop teaching a widely acclaimed introductory survey course in art history because the artists studied are “overwhelmingly white, straight, European and male.”

The move goes against the longstanding advice of the National Association of Scholars, a group that challenges political correctness in the academy.